Name
William Leslie Brookes
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/08/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Air Force
209th Sqdn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAIX BRITISH CEMETERY
II. D. 15.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted - Berkhamsted Collegiate School
Pre War
Born in Whitefield, Lancashire on 17th March 1899. Son of Ellen Peel (formerly Brookes), later of 348 Moseley Rd., Birmingham, and the late William Brookes.
In 1911 he was living with his parents in Sandy Mount, Station Road, Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire.
Went to Berkhamsted School. Joined Uppers in January 1913 and left in July 1916 a month before he enlisted in the RAF as a Rigger.
Enlisted on 23rd August 1916 aged 17
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
Wartime Service
Killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Lives of the First World War
