Herbert William Brooks

Forenames

Herbert William AWMM

Surname

Brooks AWMM

Service number

WWI 34316 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

28 Apr 1897 Public Source

Date of birth

28 April 1897

Public - James - Direct descendant - 25 April 2019 - New Zealand World War I Service Records, 1914-1920

Place of birth

Auckland, New Zealand

Public - James - Direct descendant - 25 April 2019 - New Zealand World War I Service Records, 1914-1920

Address before enlistment

White Swan Road, Mount Roskill, Auckland, New Zealand

Public - James - Direct descendant - 25 April 2019 - New Zealand World War I Service Records, 1914-1920

Next of kin

WW1 H.W. Brooks (father), White Swan Road, Mount Roskill, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 34316 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Farmer/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 02 Jan 1917-27 Mar 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 73 AWMM Vessel was Opawa AWMM Private AWMM 20th Reinforcements, E Company AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Auckland Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion AWMM

Herbert Brooks was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert William Brooks, of White Swan Rd., Mount Roskill, Auckland, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mr H. w. Brooks, Mt Roskill, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

30 Dec 1917 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

• Buttes New British Cemetery (NZ) Memorial, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM
• Mt Roskill War Memorial, War Memorial Park, 13 May Road, Mt Roskill, Auckland AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22280454
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage. War Memorial
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/mt-roskill-war-memorial-park
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/1737235/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1737235
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  49: 7
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Burton, O. (1922). The Auckland regiment : being an account of the doings on active service of the First, Second and Third Battalions of the Auckland Regiment. Wellington, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.