224668 Cpl. Norbert Squire Standish Brooks British Army Manchester Regiment from:Dukinfield, Cheshire My uncle, Norbert Brooks born in Dukinfield, Cheshire in 1897 served in the First World War in the Manchester Regiment. He joined at the age of seventeen and lied about his age, telling the authorities that he was eighteen. After returning to civilian life, he trained as a dentist and carried out that profession for the rest of his life. He and his wife were the parents of twin girls, but presumably he never spoke to them about his war experiences as they know nothing about them. He died when I was very young, but my mother, his sister, gave me a prayer book which was scarred by a sniper bullet and which saved his life. When telling me this story my mother became quite emotional.
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