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Second Lieutenant HORACE WILLIAM BROOKS

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Somerset Light Infantry

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 04 November 1918

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CROSS ROADS CEMETERY, FONTAINE-AU-BOIS

III. B. 20.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of William Brooks, of Ham Hill, Stoke-under-Ham, Somerset.
  • Personal Inscription HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY HIS SOUL FOR GOD
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Buried or commemorated at

CROSS ROADS CEMETERY, FONTAINE-AU-BOIS
Nord France
Number of casualties: 742
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