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Personal data

• Name BROOKE
• Initials HW
• First name HERBERT WAITE
• Place of birth Ipswich
• Country England
• Last residence Hereford
• Family Only Son of Mr. H. and Mrs. M. Brooke, of 108, WIndsor Avenue, Gateshead-on-Tyne
• Extra info First buried at St.-Denijs cemetery. In 1981 the cemetery closed and his body (together with 17 other victims) was brought to LMC.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Oxford
• Service number 59319
• Rank Corporal
• Regiment and unit 26th Bn. Royal Fusiliers
• Division - Brigade 124th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 41st Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Formerly PS/9912, 28th R.Fus.

Death

• Wounded St.-Denijs aan de Schelde; canal Kortrijk-Bossuit
• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Date of death 21 October 1918
• Died at the age of 19
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXXII - A - 16

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