David Mallory Brooke MC

Rank:MajorNumber:73030
Ship/Rgn/Sqn No:33rd Field Rgt
Name of Rgt or Ship:Royal Artillery
Died:09/06/1944Age:26
How Died:Killed in Action
Country of burial:FranceGrave Photo:Yes
Cemetery or Memorial:La Delivrande Cemetery, Douvres
Town Memorial:Not Listed
Extra Information:
Born during the March quarter 1918 in the Fareham R.D. - ref: 2a/173, the
son of Lt.-Col. Francis Ralph Russell Brooke & Mary Henrietta Brooke (nee
Leigh-Mallory).

1921 Census - F Staff Officers Quarters, The Terrace, South Shoebury,
Essex.  Son - aged: 3 - born: Camberley, Surrey.    Head of household -
Francis Ralph Brooke - Married - aged: 36 - occ: Captain Royal Artillery -
born: Bowdon,, Cheshire.   Also Mary Henrietta Brooke - Wife- aged: 36 -
occ: Home Duties - born: Mobberley, Cheshire.   Plus - 1 elder sister and 2
domestic servants.

1939 National Registration - No Trace - probably already serving, as was
his father?

Commemorated on a stained glass window in S.S. Wilfred & Mary Church Yard,
Mobberley.

French M.I. - "Heaven's morning breaks and earth's vain shadows flee".
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