Private Harold Johnson Brooks
2170 13th Australian Army
Missing in Action 22nd August 1915, Gallipoli, aged 29
Born in Clitheroe
Formerly lived at 96 Melville Street
Commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Turkey
Burnley Express 8th January 1916 - 27th October 1915
Burnley News 6th January 1916

Attested 27th April 1915 , aged 28 years 3 months
next of kin Kate Brooks, 96 Melville St, Burnley


Seems he had a brother living out there at Margaret St. Norwood but Harold’s name is not on the Norwood Memorial .
He could not have lived there because his brother said he had heard from England that his brother had died.
(Courtesy of Shirley Penman)

There is much information relation to to Harold available on the National Archives of Australia


 

 

 

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