Private Reginald Brooks

Army Number: 17603

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Ockbrook, Derbyshire. Son of George and Emily Brooks, of Yew Tree Cottage, Ockbrook. He was an accounts clerk for midland railway prior to enlisting at Derby.  He went to France on 18th March 1915 and died of wounds, on 13th July 1916,  at Tooting Military Hospital, London. 

Buried: Derby (Nottingham Road) Cemetery, United Kingdom. 5034 (C.).

Private Reginald Brooks is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Ockbrook and Borrowash War Memorial, Ockbrook, Derbyshire.