Medal & Mortality index
Private Brocklehurst, 28th London Regiment, Regimental number 1821 ; from the 26th October 1914; as part of the B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force).
Father : E Brocklehurst Esq., Kinnersley Manor, Reigate, Surrey
Roll of Honour :
1916 July 1 - BROCKLEHURST, Captain Thomas Pownall, 2/Royal West Surrey ; Near Mametz
He is commissioned on the 15th May 1915, to the Queens Regiment
The CWGC site tells us he was in the 2nd Battalion Queens, and aged 29 when he
dies; son of Edward & Katherine Brocklehurst; and he is buried at Dantzig Alley
cemetery. Mametz (Somme).
The 1911 census lists him as a Law Student, aged 24, living at Kinnersley
Manor, Reigate with this parents. he has an older sister Unett, aged 35. His
father Edward is a farmer, aged 68, who was born in Cheshire and his mother,
aged 57, was born in Aden, Arabia.