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Corporal Herbert Brook

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Corporal Herbert Brook Veteran

Birth
Halifax, Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England
Death
19 Feb 1919 (aged 27)
Huddersfield, Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England
Burial
Edgerton, Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England GPS-Latitude: 53.6544257, Longitude: -1.7933702
Plot
46. 130G.
Memorial ID
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Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922
The following extract is from Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922 (2014) by J. Margaret Stansfield:

BROOK, HERBERT, MSM. Corporal. No 441158. Royal Army Medical Corps. Born 30 Violet Street, Halifax 10.12.1891. Son of Richard and Mary Brook, 91 Northgate, Huddersfield. Educated at Beaumont Street Board School; Huddersfield Higher Grade School and Bangor College. Was a school teacher in Sheffield before enlisting on 18.6.1915. Was on holiday at Cologne when war was declared. Single. Was demobilised at the beginning of February, 1919, but was taken ill on the journey home. Died from influenza and pneumonia at home, 91 Northgate, Huddersfield, on 19.2.1919, aged 27. He had recently been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for clerical work in the 4th Army Headquarters.

Buried EDGERTON CEMETERY, HUDDERSFIELD. Grave location:- 46, 130G.
ROH:- Great Northern Street Congregational Chapel; St. Andrew's Church, Leeds Road;
Fartown and Birkby War Memorial.
Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922
The following extract is from Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922 (2014) by J. Margaret Stansfield:

BROOK, HERBERT, MSM. Corporal. No 441158. Royal Army Medical Corps. Born 30 Violet Street, Halifax 10.12.1891. Son of Richard and Mary Brook, 91 Northgate, Huddersfield. Educated at Beaumont Street Board School; Huddersfield Higher Grade School and Bangor College. Was a school teacher in Sheffield before enlisting on 18.6.1915. Was on holiday at Cologne when war was declared. Single. Was demobilised at the beginning of February, 1919, but was taken ill on the journey home. Died from influenza and pneumonia at home, 91 Northgate, Huddersfield, on 19.2.1919, aged 27. He had recently been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for clerical work in the 4th Army Headquarters.

Buried EDGERTON CEMETERY, HUDDERSFIELD. Grave location:- 46, 130G.
ROH:- Great Northern Street Congregational Chapel; St. Andrew's Church, Leeds Road;
Fartown and Birkby War Memorial.

Inscription

Royal Army Medical Corps

Gravesite Details

441158



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