Name
George Brooks
4 Apr 1883
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/10/1918
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
40389
Lancashire Fusiliers
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MONTAY-NEUVILLY ROAD CEMETERY, MONTAY
I. E. 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Tring Town Memorial,
St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Tring,
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
George Brooks was born on 4 Apr 1883 (baptised 30 Jun 1883 in Tring) to James Brooks, and Jane (nee Croughty).
On the 1891 Census the family of parents, Lily, (born 1881), George, Arthur (born 1886) and Ethel (born 1889) were living at 8, Frogmore Terrace, Tring
On the 1901 Census the family of Parents, George (bricklayer’s Labourer), Arthur (cowman, born 1886), and Ethel were living at 13, Frogmore Street, Tring.
George married Emily Louisa Lines on 12 Oct 1902 in Tring.
On the 1911 Census George together with Louisa and sons, Charles (born 8 Oct 1903), William (born 19 Sep 1905) and George (born12 Mar 1908) were living at 8, Alma Place, Tring. There would be a further son, Joseph (born 20 Feb 1919).
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for George, who probably enlisted in late 1915 as Private 28829 in the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment.
He was later a Private 40389 in A Company, 10th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers a part of 17th (Northern Division). George was killed in Action on 9 Oct 1918 during the Pursuit to the Selle (9 Oct 1918).
Additional Information
This man’s connection to the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment may be misleading. This combined regiment was not officially formed until 1919, but arguably the process began in May 1918 with the amalgamation of the remnants of Hertfordshire Regiment with those of the 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment. When men died before 1919 it is likely that they were officially still in one or the other of the individual regiments. In the absence of other information we are recording them as related to Hertfordshire, rather than miss such a relationship.
War Gratuity of £10 10s and arrears of £4 3s 6d was paid to his widow, Louisa, who also received a pension of 33s 9d for herself and the children.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
