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Walter BROOKS

Regimental number395
ReligionCongregational
OccupationCleaner
AddressGloucester Road, Hurstville, New South Wales
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation24
Next of kinMother, Mrs Betsy Brooks, Gloucester Road, Hurstville, New South Wales
Enlistment date8 March 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name17th Battalion, A Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/34/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board Transport A32 Themistocles on 12 May 1915
FateNo details of fate entered on Nominal Roll
Age at death from cemetery records27
Place of burialPoperinghe New Military Cemetery (Plot II, Row J, Grave No. 18), Belgium
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
25
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: George and Betsy BROOKES; husband of A.L. BROOKES, 10 Lawrence Street, Romiley, Cheshire, England. Native of Chiley, Derbyshire, England

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