| Name |
Joseph BROOKS |
| Rank/Number |
Sergeant 18307 |
| Regiment |
Essex Regiment 13th Battalion |
| Enlisted |
Stratford, Essex |
| Age/Date of death |
34 26 Oct 1916 |
| How died/Theatre of war |
Died of wounds France & Flanders |
| Last known address |
Plaistow, Essex |
| Cemetery |
Couin British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France |
| Grave or Memorial Reference |
IV.C.9 |
| Location of memorial |
Weston Turville War Memorial |
| Date/Place of birth |
Sep qtr 1883 Stratford, Essex |
| Date/Place of baptism |
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| Pre-war occupation of Casualty |
taxi cab driver |
| Parents |
George & Sarah Brooks |
| Parent's occupation |
horsekeeper |
| Parents' Address (last known) |
Stratford, London |
| Wife |
Edith Annie Brooks |
| Wife's Address (last known) |
Church End, Weston Turville |
| Notes |
CWGC gives the father's name as Benjamin. Pension Papers on Ancestry - formerly 3082 Essex Regiment. Discharged by purchase in 1915 but re-enlisted. |