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Military service
Age:
20
Rank:
Chief Radio Officer
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. Point Clear (of Greece)
Birth:
October 25, 1921
Chatham, Ontario
Death:
April 5, 1942
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
4. A. 7.
Additional information
Son of Harold Cyril Brooks and Mary Teresa Haley, of Harriston, Ontario. During the First World War, Harold served and fought in France and Belgium with the 164th Canadian Corps of Signals Company, regimental number 663688.
Robert died of an unspecified cause in Vezagapatam Harbour, Bay of Bengal, India.
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Chief Radio Officer Robert Francis Brooks
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Chief Radio Officer Robert Francis Brooks
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 101 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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