Brooks, William John

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Cemetery: Tyne Cot Memorial

Country: Belgium

Area: West-Vlaanderen

Rank: Private

Force: Army

Official Number: 12825

Unit: 9th Bn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers.

Country of Service: British

Details: 16th August 1917. Age 23. Son of Edward and Margaret Brooks of 3 Wylie St. Hamilton Lanark. Panel 144 to 145. William John Brooks Pte 12825 9th Btn Royal Dublin Fusiliers was born in the pit village of Quarter, Hamilton, Lanarkshire on 18th April 1893.Coalminer and son of a coalminer Edward Brooks and Margaret Donnelly. No record of a marriage in Scotland. Killed in action 16th August 1917 Paschendaele. No known grave. Commemorated Tyne Cot Memorial and Hamilton (Lanarkshire) War Memorial.We are related to to William through his grandfather, John Donnelly, the brother of our great, great grandmother Sarah Donnelly, wife of James Higgins, the maternal grandparents of our paternal grandmother Elizabeth Young. Submitted by James Devlin McIvor

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Tyne Cot Memorial - Brooks, William John

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