Lieutenant-Colonel Herb Cook
Lake Superior Regiment

They are commanded by Lieut.-Col. Hebert Cook of Port Arthur, a veteran of the last war and a contractor in civil life. He is quiet, has a mild twinkle in his eye and is possessed of a subtle wit.

(Evening Citizen, 2 May 1941, 2)

Born in Manchester, England on 19 September 1891, Herbert Cook was a construction contractor in Port Arthur, Ontario. During the First World War veteran, he served in France with the 52nd Battalion, which was perpetuated by the Lake Superior Regiment after the war. He assumed in 1938 and mobilized with the battalion in May 1940. An inspection report described him as “A quiet spoken but apparently capable man to whom this battalion, I think, may be safely entrusted.”

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