{"id":7484,"date":"2025-05-02T08:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7484"},"modified":"2025-05-02T08:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:56:14","slug":"brooks-h-bmdr-22733-royal-field-artillery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/brooks-h-bmdr-22733-royal-field-artillery\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooks H Bmdr 22733 Royal Field Artillery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKS, HENRY, Bombardier, No. 22733, 20th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, yst. s. of William Brooks, Police Sergeant, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of the late John Wilson; b. Peckham, London, S.E.; educ. Kilburn Lane, W.; was employed with the firm. Musicus, Ltd., Player Piano Manufacturers, Salisbury Road, London, N.; enlisted soon after the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from July, 1915; subsequently proceeded to Mesopotamia, and died in hospital at Basra 17 July, 1916, from illness contracted while on active service. Buried there; unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKS, HENRY, Bombardier, No. 22733, 20th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, yst. s. of William Brooks, Police Sergeant, by his wife, Ellen, dau. of the late John Wilson; b. Peckham, London, S.E.; educ. Kilburn Lane, W.; was employed with the firm. Musicus, Ltd., Player Piano Manufacturers, Salisbury Road, London, N.; enlisted soon after the outbreak of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-field-artillery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7485,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7484\/revisions\/7485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}