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Pte Ernest Brocklehurst
British Army 2nd Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:18, Jodrell St., New Mills, Derbyshire
(d.12th Nov 1919)
My Grandfather, Ernest Brocklehurst, served in the First World War. On return to England he had both feet amputated because of trench foot, soon after the operation he died. I only knew my father for the first 5 years of my life as he passed away and there is so much I would have asked him about my Grandfather as I got older. Sadly that was never to be. No matter how much I attempt to find out where my grandfather enlisted (although I was led to believe it was Rochdale Lancs)I seem to draw a blank. I have checked as much as I know how and found enlistment details on the web but his name is never mentioned, but he is on the Commonwealth War Graves' website. He died on the 12th of November 1919 aged 32. I really do believe there is something out there about him, exactly where he enlisted, where did he go, where did he serve etc? I keep my fingers crossed. As I grow older and have not had so much luck with family life as a child it would be nice to fill in so many missing pieces of my history jigsaw
