Cecil Corke served in the West Yorkshire Regt., joining as a Private (Nos 1249 and 240077) and he went to France on 16 April 1915. He was commissioned in July 1917 and was a Lieutenant, in the 5th Battalion, by the end of the War.
Born in Baschurch, Shropshire in 1899, the son of a physician and surgeon, his family had moved to Victoria Avenue, Evesham by 1901, when there were 8 children and three servants. He was a nurseryman in 1911, living in Godalming, Surrey. He married Ina Mallinder in Sheffield in 1918 and they had three children – Ina, b. Sheffield, 1920; Geoffrey, b. Wem, Shropshire, 1921 and Lorrie, b. Sheffield, 1925. He and his wife were on the Wickhamford Electoral Roll in 1929/30, when living in one of the pair of Manor Cottages in Wickhamford Lane. By the time of the 1939 Register, he was a widower, living in St Albans and a seed and potato merchant. He may have been similarly employed whilst living in Wickhamford. His wife died in 1937 in St Albans and he died while living in Tunbridge Wells, in 1978.