The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private J Brooks


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Private James BROOKS, G/21326, 3rd/4th   Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 267136, Middlesex Regiment), died of wounds, Flanders, France, 2nd March 1918, age 29.

Born Darcy, Lever, Bolton, Lancashire, enlisted Bolton, Lancashire.

Son of Edward Brooks; husband of Ellen Greenhalgh (formerly Brooks), of 5, Alicia St., Darcy Lever, Bolton, Lancashire

Commemorated at Lever Bridge (St Stephen & All Martyrs) Churchyard,  Special Memorial. Lancashire


London Gazette 28th November 1919.

SOLDIERS' AND AIRMEN'S BALANCES UNDISPOSED OF.

In pursuance of "The Regimental Debts Act, 1893," notice is hereby given that there is available for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled the sum of money set opposite to the name of each of the deceased Soldiers and Airmen named in the lists which are published with this notice in the London Gazette and the "Army List," and are also to be seen at the Regimental Depots throughout the United Kingdom.

Applications from persons supposing themselves entitled as Next of Kin should be addressed by letter to "The Secretary, War Office, Park Buildings, St. James's Park, London, S.W.," and marked outside "Effects."

R. H. BRADE. War Office, November 28, 1919,

List CCCCXXIX of the names of deceased Soldiers whose Personal Estate is held for distribution amongst the Next-of-Kin or others entitled. Effects 1918-19.

Brooks J, Private, Royal West Kent Regiment.  £30  15s  2d.


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