Reginald Walter Brooks

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

11551

Unit at enlistment:

4th Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Yes

Wounded:

Yes

Cemetery:

Mount Hope Cemetery, Soldiers' Plot, Brantford, Ontario

Birth country:

England

Birth county:

Surrey

Birth city:

Croydon

Address at enlistment:

85 Brighton Row, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

36 Portland Road, Lower Sydenham, London, England

Trade or calling:

Labourer

Religious denominations:

Church of England

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

Miscellaneous

BX May 15, 1948

Reginald Walter Brooks

The death of Reginald Walter Brooks, 295 Greenwich Street, occurred at the Brantford General Hospital early today at the age of 52 years. Mr. Brooks was born in England, and had resided in Brantford since 1913. He had been employed as a blacksmith with the Cockshutt Plow Company since 1917, working at this occupation until a month ago. He was a veteran of the First World War, enlisting in this city with the 4th Battalion, later known as the Mad Fourth. He was wounded and discharged in 1917. Surviving are his widow here; his mother, Mrs. Emma Brooks, in England; a son, Edwin Brooks, city; two daughters, Mrs. Stephen Guernsey (Alice), Toronto and Mrs. E. (Kathleen) Lozano, in the States, also, four brothers and a sister, all in England and a sister in Brantford. Mr. Brooks is resting at the McCleister Funeral Home, where the funeral will be conducted Tuesday afternoon. Interment will be in Mount Hope Cemetery.

BX May 19, 1948

Reginald Walter Brooks

The funeral of Reginald W. Brooks, 295 Greenwich Street, was held from the McCleister Funeral Home on Tuesday afternoon, Rev. C.V. Tompkins, St. Luke’s Anglican Church, officiated. Among the many floral tributes were those from the Canadian Legion, the 4th Battalion, the 21 year Club of the Cockshutt Plow Company, his co-workers in the blacksmith shop at Cockshutt’s and others. Interment was in the Soldiers’ Plot in Mount Hope Cemetery, where Last Post and Reveille were sounded by Bugler William Bessant. The flag-draped casket was borne by Charles Bonney, Richard Lockley, James Lockley, Meredith M. Oberlin, George Hemmings and Earl Habbershaw.