In Memory of

Lewis James Brooks

Private
4499
Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line (inc. Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps)

14th (King’s) Hussars

who died on
30th October 1914. Age 31.

 

Additional Information:

Son of Frank Brooke and Emma Brooke. Husband of Maud Mary (nee Brown), married 24 December 1911 at St Margaret’s Church, Roath. Lived at Arabella St, Roath. Died in Flanders.

Commemorative Information

Memorial: Ypres (Menin Gate), Belgium.
Panel Number: Panel 5.
Historical Information: From October 1914 to October 1918, five major offensives occurred at Ypres (now Ieper) in Belgium. By the time the last shells fell nearly 200,000 servicemen had been killed.