2878901 Bdr Edwin Cowie BROOKS, 62 Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery: 23/10/1944

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    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.
     

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