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Lance Corporal L W BROOKS

Service Number: 12/1199
Regiment & Unit/Ship

York and Lancaster Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 July 1916

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY

I. D. 33.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of the late George and Annie Brooks, of Rotherham.
  • Personal Inscription A SOLDIER FOR KING AND COUNTRY ONLY
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Buried or commemorated at

YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 2614
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