Lt.-Col. Geoffrey Charles Sidney Bancroft Cooke (8 September 1897 – 4 December 1980) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
The son of Lt.-Col. Sidney FitzWyman Cooke and his wife, Alice Eliza Bancroft, he was born at Westminster and educated at Charterhouse School.
[1] After completing his education at Charterhouse, he served in the First World War with the Royal Garrison Artillery, enlisting as a second lieutenant in October 1916.
[8] He returned to the Royal Artillery in February 1928,[9] and attended the Gunnery Staff Course in September 1929,[10] during which he was promoted to the rank of captain in June 1930.
[17] Having served in the Second World War, he retired from active service in May 1948, at which point he was granted the honorary rank of lieutenant colonel.