Completed Edward Brookes

[mjay]

Private 41215 Edward Brookes
1898 - 6/6/1918 (20)
https://www.tiptonremembers.net/index.p ... kes-edward

Dob abt 1898
Edward Brookes
Registration Date 1898
Quarter of the Year Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration Place Chester, Cheshire, England
Volume 8a Page 385

This makes him 20 at the time of his death, not 18 as per CWGC.

Baptism

Parents John Brookes & Eliza Foxall

Parents Marriage 8/4/1877
Look up requested
BROOKS John
FOXALL Eliza
1877 Dudley, St Edmund
Dudley Register Office 201/006/270

John Brooks
Eliza Foxall
Registration Year 1877
Registration Quarter Apr-May-Jun
Registration District Dudley
Inferred County Staffordshire
Volume 6c Page 26

1901 12 & 13 Simons Passage, Tipton, Staffs.
John Broookes (45, Chain Maker, born Tipton), his wife Eliza (44, born Tipton), and their 5 children (Thomas (19, Chain Striker, born Tipton), Eliza (17, Domestic Servant, born Smethwick), Mary A. (13, born Tipton), William H. (11, born Birmingham), and Edward (3, born Chester).

1911 25 Curzon Street, Saltney, Cheshire.
William J. Brookes (33, Chain Maker, born Saltney), his wife Catherine (31, born Handbridge), and their 4 children: Catherine (9, School, born Saltney), Florrie (6, born Handbridge), John James (4, born Saltney), and William (3 weeks, born Saltney),
also William's brother Edward Brookes (13, Brother, School, born Saltney).

WW1 Records
Private 41215 Edward Brookes
Killed in Action on Thursday, 6th June 1918, age 20.
Edward's body was never identified, he is Commemorated on the Soissons Memorial, Aisne, France.
1st Bn., Worcestershire Regiment. 24th Brigade of 8th Division.
Formerly 24437 Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
Son of John Brookes, of 20, High St., Tipton, Staffs.
Born: Chester, Enlisted: Birmingham, Resident: Tipton.
Soldier's Papers at National Archives did not survive.

Dod 6/6/1918 (20) KIA France

Burial No known grave

www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/725443/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/560 ... rd-brookes

Commemorated on the Soissons Memorial, Aisne, France.

Not commemorated on any Tipton memorial.

Any other info

[kdwoodie]

BROOKES, EDWARD    FOXALL  GRO Reference: 1898  M Quarter in CHESTER  Volume 08A  Page 385 

[mjay]

Thanks Kd

Thanks to Rf for the marriage look up
270 8 Apr 1877 St Edmund Dudley
John BROOKS 21 B Chain Maker Dudley Father John Brooks Chain Maker
Eliza FOXALL 21 S Dudley Father William Foxall Chain Maker
After Banns The X Of Both
Wit; William Foxall / Elizabeth Foxall X


Completed & All added
https://www.tribalpages.com/tribe/brows ... =988085918

[kdwoodie]

Mjay ages are wrong for John and Eliza

FOXALL, ELIZA SITCH
GRO Reference: 1855 S Quarter in DUDLEY Volume 06C Page 44

[mjay]

Thanks Kd

All updated