Private John Stanley Brooke
Army Number: 20321
Battalion: 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Son of Mark Pearson Brooke and Florence Mary Brooke, of 8, Upton Drive, Sherwood; Husband of Rose Mary Beck (formerly Brooke), of 11, Mayfield Terrace, Curtis Street, Meadows, Nottingham. He was a town labourer prior to enlisting on 20th November 1914 at Nottingham. He went to Gallipoli on 1st July 1915 and was killed in action, 21st August 1915, age 27, in the attack at Ismail Oglu Tepe, (Chocolate Hill), Gallipoli, Turkey.
Commemorated : Helles Memorial, Turkey. Panel 150 to 152.
Private John Stanley Brooke is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Loggerheads Public House War Memorial, St. Mary’s Church, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

