Burton BROOKE

Regimental number9/1014
Address6 Eye Street, Invercargill
Marital statusSingle
Next of kinFather, Edgar W Brooke, Bluff, Southland
Rank on embarkationTrooper
Enlistment statusVolunteer
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, 5th Reinforcements, Otago Mounted Rifles
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on 16 October 1914
Members of the 5th Reinforcement, Otago Mounted Rifles Regiment, departed New Zealand on board two ships, HMNZT 7 'Limerick' and HMNZT 10 'Arawa'. It is not possible from the Nominal Roll to determine on which ship an individual embarked.
Final rankPrivate
Final unitNew Zealand Maori (Pioneer) Battalion
FateKilled in Action 5 June 1916
Age at death from cemetery records22
Place of burialCite Bonjean Military Cemetery (Plot II, Row A, Grave No 12), Armentieres, France
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: E.W. and E.F. Brooke, Hundalee, Parnassus, Canterbury
Family/military connectionsBrothers: 43296 Trooper Frederic John Medows Zachary BROOKE, New Zealand Machine Gun Corps, died of disease, 18 December 1917; 71054 Rifleman John Fletcher BROOKE, 2nd Bn, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, died of wounds, 10 October 1918.
Other details

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

Miscellaneous detailsNominal Roll Vol. 1: Otago Mounted Rifles/Fifth