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Corporal ERNEST LESLIE BROOKES

Service Number: 7044883
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 06 April 1943

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MEDJEZ-EL-BAB WAR CEMETERY

9. H. 2.

Tunisia

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Brookes; husband of Rose Anna Brookes, of Ironbridge, Shropshire.
  • Personal Inscription DYING IN A FAR OFF LAND NO LOVED ONES HELD HIS HAND A COMRADE CLOSED HIS EYES FAR FROM HOME HE LIES
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Buried or commemorated at

MEDJEZ-EL-BAB WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 2910
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