Remembering Today Casualty Details | CWGC Name: BROOKS, EDWIN COWIE Rank: Bombardier Service No: 2878901 Date of Death: 23/10/1944 Age: 33 Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery Unit: 246 Battery, 62 Anti-Tank Regt. Grave Reference: V.A.14. Cemetery: LIER BELGIAN MILITARY CEMETERY Additional Information: Son of Alexander R. Brooks and of Jessie Brooks (nee Cowie); husband of Catherine A. Brooks (nee Grant), of Kincardine-O'Neil, Aberdeenshire. Personal Inscription: YOU HAVE LEFT A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY YOU DIED, AS YOU LIVED, EVERYONE'S FRIEND Fatally wounded by a booby trap in a ditch on the Langenburg Road, near Wortel Kolonie, Belgium. 62 Anti-Tank Regt was part of an ad-hoc brigade of 3 Royal Artillery Regiments temporarily advancing as Infantry for 3 weeks in October 1944.