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• Name ROOKE
• Initials EM
• First name EDWARD MARTIN
• Place of birth Tring
• Country England, United Kingdom
• Family Son of Edward and Hannah Rooke
• Profession Electrician
• Extra info Husband of Lilias Rooke, of 19, Maxwell St., Partick, Glasgow, Scotland.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 17 August 1915, Toronto, Ontario
• Service number 304309
• Rank Driver
• Regiment and unit 2nd Brigade Canadian Field Artillery
• Army - Corps - Division 1st Canadian Division
• National force C.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Died of wounds at n°10 CCS.

Death

• Type of wounds He was on duty as a signaller at the headquarters of the 10th Battery in Bedford-Wood. At about 5 p.m., June 13th, 1916, he delivered a message to the Officer commanding the Battery, and while returning to the telephone dug-out, he was hit in the thigh by a splinter of an enemy shell.
• Date of death 13 June 1916
• Died at the age of 27
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VII - C - 28

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