AMOS BROOKS

Born: 1892, Ipswich.

Died: 30th November 1915; age 23 and 10 months; died from exposure at the Dardanelles.

Residence: 9, Ernest Street, St. Helen’s, Ipswich.

Religion: CofE.

Date of Entry Therein: 26th September 1915 – Balkans.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 3/997.

Regiment: Essex Regiment, 3rd Battalion – attached to the 1st Battalion.

Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1915 Star.

The funeral service was officiated by Chaplain G.A. Smith.

Grave Reference:

II.A.1.

Hill 10 Cemetery,

Turkey (Gallipoli).

Relatives Notified & Address: Youngest son of Mrs. E. Brooks, of 9, Ernest Street, Ipswich & the late John Brooks.

Brother to EDGAR BROOKS and WILLIAM BROOKS.

CENSUS

1901   34, White Elm Street, Ipswich.

Amos was 9 years old and living with his widowed mother & brothers.

Emma Harriet Mallett Brooks (nee Wilding), 45, a Stay Corset, born Ipswich.

Mitchell Brietwiser Brooks, 17, an Engine Marker Machinist, Chelmondiston, Suffolk.

Bertie Ivor Brooks, 15, an Engine Marking Driling Machinist, born Chelmondiston.

Edgar Brooks, 13, a Fishmonger’s Errand Boy, born Chelmondiston.

William Brooks, 11, born Chelmondiston.

1911   9, Ernest Street, Ipswich.

Amos was 19 years old, a General Labourer. He was living with his mother & brothers.

Emma, 55.

Sidney Brooks, 29, a Foundry Labourer – Agricultural Works, born Chelmondiston.

William, 21, an Iron Turner – Agricultural Works.

Amos’s father was John Tapler Brooks, born 1855, Chelmondiston – died 1893, Suffolk—a Mariner.

Soldiers’ Effects to Emma Brooks – mother, John and Bertie – brothers, and Mrs. Elizabeth F. Brooks – sister-in-law.

Essex Regiment, 1st Battalion:http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/essex-regiment/

Gallipoli : http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/battle-of-gallipoli