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Private GEORGE CECIL SHIRLEY BROOKS

Service Number: 892001
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Infantry

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 August 1918

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME

VI. B. 20.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of George Shirley Brooks and Bessie Wilson Brooks, of Aldershot, England.
  • Personal Inscription DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI.
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Buried or commemorated at

CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME
Somme France
Number of casualties: 783
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