BROOKES, Vernon Thomas
| Service Number: | 389 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 October 1914, Enlisted at Orbost |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 7th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 23 September 1892 |
| Home Town: | Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Smearton State School; Ballarat High School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | School Master |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 25 April 1915, aged 22 years |
| Cemetery: |
No.2 Outpost Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey Special Memorial, Grave 5 Headstone inscription reads:Duty always Commemorated on the Roll of Honour in Ballarat High School's Peacock Hall |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Smeaton District Great War Honor Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 389, Enlisted at Orbost | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 389, 7th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 389, 7th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Robert Thomas and Agnes Brookes of 3 Fern Avenue, Windsor, Victoria formerly of Ballarat. Brother of Leslie Robert Brookes MID who returned to Australia on 20 December 1918 having served with the 21st Battalion
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Roll of Honour Circular mentiions how he rode his horse for 60 miles from Wrangrabelle to Orbost to enlist
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Biography contributed by Andreena Hockley
Private Vernon Brookes, son of Mr. R. T. Brookes, of Soldiers' Hill, Ballarat, was born on the 23rd of September, 1892.
He attended the Ballarat Agricultural High School in 1903-9, and, in 1910, was appointed a junior teacher at the Smeaton School. He was transferred to the Eureka-street School, Ballarat; and, afterwards, as head teacher, to Skene's Creek, near Apollo Bay, and to Wangrabelle, in East Gippsland. He gave up charge of the last-named school in order to enlist.
Entering the A.I.F. on the 1st of October, 1914, he embarked with the 7th Battalion on the transport Hororatu on the 19th. After training for some time in Egypt, he went with his unit to Gallipoli, and was killed at the Landing on the 25th of April, 1915.
His brother, Lieutenant Leslie Brookes, holds an Imperial commission.
The record of Vernon Brookes shows him to have been an intelligent, capable, and conscientious teacher.
Source: The Education Department's Record of War Service, Victoria, 1914-1919.
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