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Wars Last Goodbyes
Individual Record
Inscription
And of
Flight Sergeant S. Brookes
Son of above
Who gave his life in the Great War
Aged 22 years
Interred in
Hadra Cemetery, Egypt
"Rest in Peace"
Place of Inscription
St Mary Magdalene Stretton Sugwas
Herefordshire
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Samuel
Brooks
1895
Stretton Sugwas, Herefordshire
21st March 1917
Samuel drowned off the coast of Egypt at Aboukir when trying to salvage an aeroplane in a tragic accident
22
Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
First World War
Sergeant
23rd (Reserve) Squadron Royal Flying Corps
Surname seems to have been either Brooks or Brookes
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