The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private C R Brooks

Private Charles Robert BROOKS, G/18122, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 3663, Suffolk Yeomanry), killed in action, Flanders France, 29th September 1916, age 20.

Born St Lukes, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, son of Joseph and Mary Brooks, of 67, Oxford Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

1911 Census - 67, Oxford Road, Chesterton, Cambridge - Joseph Brooks, head, age 54, married, bricklayer, builder, born East Kirkby, Lincolnshire; Mary Brooks, wife, age 51, married 25 years, 5 children, 4 still alive, born Worksop, Nottinghamshire; Agnes Emily Brooks, daughter, age 15, single, dressmakers apprentice, born New Chesterton, Cambridge; Charles Robert Brooks, son, age 14, gas fitters apprentice, Gas Company, born New Chesterton, Cambridge; Joseph Herbert Brooks, son, age 12, school, born New Chesterton, Cambridge.

Enlisted Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, age 19 years & 3 months, height 5ft 11½ inches, moles on neck & left jaw, mole under left arm. Resided 67, Oxford Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Formerly gas fitter.

Home 9th December 1915 to 26th August 1916; BEF 27th August 1916 to

9th December 1915, enlisted; 27th August 1916, Folkestone, embarked; 27th August 1916, Boulogne, disembarked; 27th August 1916, arrived Infantry Base Depot, posted 1/4th Suffolk Regiment; 28th August 1916, transferred to 4th Reserve Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 5th October 1916, reported missing; 23rd August 1917, regarded for official purposes as having died on or since 5th October 1916.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France.

This page was last updated on 26-Apr-2017.