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Lance Corporal W BROOKS

Service Number: 6598
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Highland Light Infantry

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 18 March 1915

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ESTAIRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND EXTENSION

Sp. Mem. C. 2.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 8th Bn. Royal Scots
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Andrew and Violet Brooks; husband of Annie Brooks, of Hamburg, Carluke, Lanarkshire. Born at Carluke.
  • Personal Inscription THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT
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Buried or commemorated at

ESTAIRES COMMUNAL CEMETERY AND EXTENSION
Nord France
Number of casualties: 900
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