Brooksbank S Captain 2nd Yorkshire Regiment

BROOKSBANK, STAMP, Capt., 2nd Battn. (19th Foot) Alexandra. Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regt.), eldest s. of Sir Edward Clitherow Brooksbank, Bart., of Healaugh Manor, Tadcaster, J.P., Major, 8th (Volunteer) Battn. The West Riding Regt., by his wife, Katherine Graham, 2nd dau. of H. M. Lang, of Broadmeadows, Selkirk b. Healaugh Old Hall, Tadcaster, co. York, 16 Jan. 1887; educ. Eton, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Yorkshire Regt. in May, 1914; promoted Lieut. Dec. 1914. and Temp. Capt. March, 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Jan. 1915, until reported wounded and missing after the fighting at Loos 25 Sept. 1915, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5

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