Private William Brooks

Army Number: 306328

Battalion: 2/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Son of William and Elizabeth Brooks, of 19 Cheapside, Worksop. He was a coal miner at Manton Colliery, Nottinghamshire, prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He served in Dublin during the Irish Rebellion of 1916 and later went to France. He was killed in action, in the attack on the German line near St. Julian, near Ypres, Belgium. 

Commemorated : Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.

Private William Brooks is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Worksop War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
St. Ann’s Church War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. 
St. Mary and St. Cuthbert’s Priory Church War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.