Name
Alfred Brooks
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/09/1917
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
266369
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 153.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon,
Diocese - Book of Remembrance, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans,
Diocese of St Albans - ROH, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans,
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1887 in Stanford-le-Hope, Essex son of John and Lucy Brooks and was living in the High Street working as a butcher’s boy in 1901. He was living as a cab driver in 20 Rumbold Road, Rye Park in 1911.
He married Mary Ann Brooks and later lived in 3 Council Houses, Nazeing, Essex.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford and was killed in action during the Battle of Polygon Wood near Ypres.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
