Cynthia Felicity Joan Cooke CBE (11 June 1919 – 20 April 2016) was a British nurse who was Matron-in-Chief of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service (QARNNS), the nursing branch of the Her Majesty's Naval Service, from 1973 to 1976.Cooke was awarded the Royal Red Cross in 1964, became a Commander of the Order of St John in 1974, and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1975.Cooke was born on 11 June 1919 in Bealings, Suffolk. She was the daughter of a Guardsman, and went to school at Stockwell County Secondary School in London, where a special teaching method known as the Dalton Plan had been put into place. Wikipedia