Name
George Townshend Brooke
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/05/1915
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Royal Engineers
1st (North Midland) Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WHITE HOUSE CEMETERY, ST. JEAN-LES-YPRES
IV. A. 13.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 9 May 1878 in Brockton House, Sutton Maddock, Shropshire son of John Townshend Brooke and of Lady Wilhelmina (Legge) Brooke. He was educated at Haileybury College 1892-96 and Institute of Civil Engineers 1898-04. Civil Engineer in Cairo, Egypt. He married Ida May Mullings, of "Elmleigh", Queen's Road, Cheltenham in 1910.
Wartime Service
Entered France on 1 Mar 1915 and was killed in action near Ypres.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
