Private Harry Brooks

Army Number: 204412

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Clarborough, Nottingham. Son of Arthur and Alice Brooks, of 224, Gateford Road, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He was a labourer at a lime works prior to enlisting 26th August 1916 at Retford, Nottinghamshire. He went to France on 11th October 1917 and was admitted to 1st Canadian General Hospital, Etaples, France, on 13th November 1917 suffering from trench foot.  He was transferred to England on Hospital Ship Brighton, 18th November 1917. He returned to France on 18th May 1918 and died, 9th October 1918, aged 20,  of gunshot wounds to his abdomen at 12 Casualty Clearing Station, Tincourt, France. 

Buried : Tincourt New British Cemetery, France. Plot 7. Row A. Grave 23.

Private Harry Brooks is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. John the Baptist Church War Memorial, Clarborough, Nottingham.
Worksop War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
St. John’s Church War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
St. mary and St. Cuthbert’s Priory War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.