William Cook was born in North London. In 1927 Bill's father, a goldsmith, brought the family to South Australia in search of better work opportunities. None eventuated for him and he returned home within a year. His wife and youngest son soon followed. Bill Cook, however, embarked upon an eventful three year initiation of bush life in Australia - from very brief stints on a mallee farm and Kidman's Myrtle Springs Station to life on the track in New South Wales enroute to the working man's Mecca, Queensland (never reached) and work in the Mount Burr forest. Bill Cook settled in South Australia, never returned to England and never saw his parents again.

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