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Lieutenant COLIN ROBERT PERCY BROOKS

Regiment & Unit/Ship

3rd (King's Own) Hussars

Date of Death

Died 02 April 1918

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOVES WEST COMMUNAL CEMETERY

B. 13.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 4th Sqdn. Machine Gun Corps (Cavalry)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of Harry Wilkinson Brooks and Bertha Ann Brooks, of 5, Kensington Park Gardens, London.
  • Personal Inscription CAME AND STAYED AND WENT NOR EVER CEASED TO SMILE
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Buried or commemorated at

BOVES WEST COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 61
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