DEATH FROM ACCIDENT

Evening Star, Issue 25994, 8 January 1947, Page 7

DEATH FROM ACCIDENT

N.Z. STAFF OFFICER IN JAPAN (P.A.) AUCKLAND, January 7. Advice that their son, Lieutenantcolonel Alan Frederick McCook, M.8.E., N.Z.A.S.C., was killed in an accident in Japan on New Year’s Day, has been received by Mr and Mrs J. G. McCbok, of Green Lane. No details of the accident have been received. Colonel McCook was 27 years of age,; and was educated at the Auckland Grammar School, where he was head prefect. He joined the Department of Agriculture'in Wellington, and, enlisting in the Army at the outbreak of the war, sailed with the first echelon in the Army Service Corps. Colonel McCook served in ' all campaigns in which the New Zealand Division was engaged. He returned to the Dominion on leave as a major in February, 1945.

Colonel McCook was later sent to ■Japan and was attached as a staff officer to the headquarters of the British ' Commonwealth Occupation Force in Tokio. He was awarded the M.B.E. and promoted to lieutenantcolonel in January, 1946. A younger brother,- Flight-sergeant Neil James McCook, was missing on air operations in Europe in March, 1944, and was later presumed dead, and a second brother served as a pilot with the R.N.Z.A.F, in the Pacific.