This name is on St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11
(Walter James Brooks)
Service no 20748
Private, Royal Fusiliers, 32nd Battalion
Died age 25 on 29 April 1918
Military Medal
Son of Mrs E. C. Bennett, of 59 South Street, Walworth, London. Native of Burgess Hill, Brighton.
Remembered at Esquelbecq Military Cemetery, France
Information from the 1911 and 1901 censuses
Walter Brooks was the son of Edith Caroline Bennett, of 59 South Street, Walworth, London. He was born in Burgess Hill, Brighton. The 1911 census shows him working as a ledger clerk for a tailors’ warehouse and living in four rooms at 36 Kingston Street, Walworth with his mother, then aged 37, stepfather Richard Bennett, 47, a housepainter from Tunbridge Wells, two siblings and three step-siblings.
In 1901 Walter James Brooks was living in a three-room dwelling at 54 South Street, Walworth, with his parents and sister. His father, also Walter Brooks, 28, was a journeyman baker from Aldershot, Hampshire. His mother, Edith, 27, was born in Southwark. Walter, 7, was born in Burgess Hill, Sussex and his sister May, 6, was born in Brighton.