Donald Leslie BROOKS

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BROOKS, Donald Leslie

Service Number:	PA1986
Enlisted:	2 January 1941, Port Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Seaman
Last Unit:	HMAS Sydney (II) - D48 WW2
Born:	Largs, 29 September 1922
Home Town:	St Kilda, South Australia
Schooling:	LeFevre's Peninsula School
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Killed in Action, Indian Ocean, 20 November 1941, aged 19 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Birkenhead HMAS Sydney (II) D48 Memorial, Carnarvon HMAS Sydney II Memorial, Carnarvon Walk of Remembrance, Geraldton HMAS Sydney II Memorial, Plymouth Naval Memorial to the Missing / Lost at Sea

World War 2 Service

2 Jan 1941:	Involvement Ordinary Seaman, PA1986, HMAS Sydney (II) - D48 WW2
2 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Port Adelaide, SA
2 Jan 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Seaman, PA1986
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Francis William Charles and Hilda May Brooks, of St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia.

Ord. Seaman Donald Leslie Brooks, 19. younger son of Petty Officer and Mrs. F. W. Brooks, of May street, Sandwell, voluntarily trained as a naval cadet before the outbreak of war. He was a close friend of A.B. Roy Heritage, having been with him at school, and rejoined him aboard the Sydney. He was born at Birkenhead. His father is aboard a minesweeper. Port Yachtsman

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