Mexborough and Swinton Times September 21, 1918

Private J.Brooks
Grenadier Guards

Mexborough – Died of Wounds

Frmm C.W.G.C.:

Private
BROOKS, JOHN HENRY
Service Number 19679
Died 06/09/1918
Aged 27
2nd Bn.
Grenadier Guards
Son of George and Hannah Brooks, of Mexborough; husband of Hilda Brooks, of 33, Dolcliffe Rd., Mexborough, Yorks.

Inscription
“HIS MERRY SPIRIT SEEMS OUR COMRADE YET FORBIDDING US TO MOURN OR TO FORGET”

MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT VII. F. 11B.