Completed Edward Brookes
Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2026 4:40 pm
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
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
