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Nicholas Gresham Cooke
Flight Lieutenant Nicholas Gresham Cooke, DFC (26 August 1913 – 31 May 1940), nicknamed Lanky, was a Royal Air Force pilot and Second World War flying ace most notable as an ace in a day and was killed in action over the Dunkirk evacuation beaches.
==Early life==
Cooke was the son of Arthur and Lucy Vivien Cooke of Up Hall, Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire. He was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Cambridge University.〔''Glasgow Herald'', 15 June 1940, p. 7〕 Following this, he became an aeronautical engineer and learned to fly with Air Service Training Limited gaining a Civil Pilot's Licence (No. 12947) on 15 July 1935.〔Ancestry. Royal Aero Club Aviators, 1910–50〕〔Shores (1994), p.190〕
The following year, Cooke joined the Royal Air Force and passed out from the Royal Air Force College Cranwell as an acting pilot officer on 23 March 1936. On 10 January 1937, he joined No. 46 Squadron RAF, a recently re-formed fighter squadron, flying Gloster Gauntlet Mark II aircraft, from RAF Digby in Lincolnshire.〔〔RAF List, July 1938, column 332〕 On 24 February 1937, he was confirmed as a pilot officer. On 15 August 1938, he was posted to No. 23 Group RAF based at Grantham, Lincolnshire, as personal assistant to the commander, Air Vice Marshal Lawrence Pattinson CB DSO MC DFC and was promptly promoted to flying officer on 27 August 1940.〔RAF List, August 1939, column 215–220〕
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