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The Roll lists his address as "Avondale", Broadway, Peterborough. It wrongly lists his rank as Lieutenant.
(CWGC records that Second Lieutenant Leonard William Brooks of the 4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment, attached to the Royal Flying Corps, died on 6/7/1917, and is buried in grave IV.B.9 at Bully-Grenay Communal Cemetery British Extension Cemetery in France. Leonard was born on 10/4/1885 in Peterborough. On the 1891 census he was living with his parents John and Emma in Church Street, Peterborough. On the 1901 census he was a scholar at Barton School in Wisbech. On the 1911 census he was staying as a visitor at Elm Bridge, Elm High Road, Emneth near Wisbech. He is named on the Elm and Emneth War Memorials, as well as on the Barton School War Memorial and on The King's School's War Memorials in Peterborough).