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Sapper WALTER BROOKES

Service Number: 395
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Engineers

2nd Div. Signal Coy.

Date of Death

Died 08 October 1917

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

II. J. 18.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of George and Betsy Brookes; husband of A. L. Brookes, of 10, Lawrence St., Romiley, Cheshire, England. Born Chinley, Derbyshire, England.
  • Personal Inscription UNTIL THE DAY DAWNS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY MIZPAH
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Buried or commemorated at

POPERINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 953
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