Sergeant Walter Brooks

Army Number: 24111

Battalion: 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived in Nottingham. Husband of Nellie Hollinshead (formerly Brooks), of 6 Chandos Street, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham and was killed in action, 9th May 1917, during the attack on Les Trois Sauvage, near Gricourt, France. 

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Thiepval Memorial, France.

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

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.