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
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon,
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
