Private Arthur Brooks

Army Number: 53592

Battalion: 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Nottingham and lived at 35, Seymour Street, Nottingham. Husband of Annie Brooks, of 177 Windmill Lane, Sneitnton, Nottingham. He was a lacemaker prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He was killed in action, 23rd July 1917, by German shellfire whilst in the trenches to the north of Ypres, Belgium. 

Buried : La Belle Alliance Cemetery, Belgium. Row C. Grave 4.

Private Arthur Brooks is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.