Cooke, Ernest Frissell Jr.
Army Private 1st class

Ernest Frissell Jr. Cooke, age 20, from Hampton, Virginia, Hampton county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Friday, November 1, 1968
Death details: Among 23 American sailors killed aboard the LST Westchester County when it was ripped open by an enemy mine as she swung at anchor in the My Tho River near Saigon.
Cemetery: Hampton National

Source: National Archives, virtualwall.org