BROOKS, Harold Weston
| Service Number: | 1378 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 March 1915, Cadets |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 7 June 1892 |
| Home Town: | Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | motor-driver or bookkeeper |
| Died: | Adamstown, New South Wales, Australia, 13 March 1953, aged 60 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW BAPTIST-H NE. 25. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1378, 17th Infantry Battalion, Cadets | |
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| 12 May 1915: | Involvement Private, 1378, 17th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
| 12 May 1915: | Embarked Private, 1378, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Sydney | |
| 22 Jun 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1378, 17th Infantry Battalion, Medically unfit (neurasthenia and fits) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
72 years ago today, on the Monday afternoon of the 16th March 1953, Lance Corporal Harold Weston Brooks, 17th Battalion (Reg No-1378), motor-driver or bookkeeper from 578 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, Queensland and 4 Buchanan Street, Hamilton, New South Wales (1933) and 3 Richards Street, Adamstown, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 61. BAPTIST-H NE. 25.
Born at Brisbane, Queensland on the 7th June 1892 to Arthur Henry and Ann Kezirah Brooks nee Best from 578 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane, Queensland; husband of Francis Dorothy Brooks, married?, died?, and Elsie Maude Brooks, married?, died 1955?, Newcastle. N.S.W., age 65?, sleeping at METHODIST 4-1A. 42, unmarked grave, Harry enlisted on the 8th March 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board Transport A32 Themistocles on the 12th May 1915.
Admitted to hospital 21.3.1916 (neurasthenia or shell shock), 27.3.1916 (epilepsy).
Commenced return to Australia 11.4.1916.
Harry arrived home invalided on the 12th May 1916, being discharged medically unfit (neurasthenia and fits) on the 22nd June 1916.
Mr. Brooks’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Harry’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Service record states Died 13/3/1953.
Officially commemorated 22.7.1953 – https://connect.dva.gov.au/.../viewCommemoration.html....
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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