BORN HULL 20/11/1889. ELDEST SON OF ARTHUR BROOKS & LUCY MOSES, AT 66, VICTORIA AVENUE, HULL & ALSO NO:18 VICTORIA AVENUE. HIS FATHER WAS A MERCHANT ACCOUNTANT. EMPLOYED AS A CORN MERCHANT CLERK. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. PRIOR TO WAR, HE SERVED AS A TROOPER IN THE EAST RIDING YEOMANRY.
HE ENLISTED AT HULL IN OCTOBER 1915. JOINED THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, ON 18/06/1915. TRANSFERRED TO THE EAST RIDING YEOMANRY FOUR MONTHS LATER. PROCEEDED TO EGYPT ON 15/12/1916. SERVED IN PALESTINE AND GAZA. POSTED TO FRANCE JUNE 1916. JOINED THE MACHINE GUN CORPS. DIED OF WOUNDS RECEIVED ON 29/10/1918 AT ROUEN HOSPITAL. BURIED AT ST SEVER. HE WAS UNMARRIED.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL WW1 MEMORIAL. HE IS LISTED IN THE DE RUVIGNEY ROLL OF HONOUR.
NOTE: BENJAMIN BROOKS SERVED & DIED AT 26, VICTORIA AVENUE, HULL, ON 16/04/1922.
