Bromley War Memorial

Parents: Charles Jesse & Sarah Ann Brookes (nee Spurgeon)
Parents' occupation: General labourer
Siblings: Annie, Ethel, Edith, Minnie, Arthur James (d), William James, Alfred Charles, Sidney Bertie, Marjorie May, Ivy Winifred, Beatrice, Bertie James, Violet May
Wife: Jane Game
Marriage date: 1909
Children: Charles Samuel, George Jesse

Census information

1891
Address: 5 Well Yard, Halstead
1901
Address: Army
1911
Address: 11 Mooreland Road
Occupation: Postman

Extra details

Charles George (known as George) was the eldest of Charles and Sarah Ann Brookes' fourteen children. He was baptised on 18th October 1884 at St Andrew's Church Halstead along with his sisters Annie and Ethel.

Prior to enlisting on 4th October 1899 to serve in South Africa George had been a labourer. After marrying Jane Game in 1909 the couple moved from Woodford, Essex to Bromley in 1910, where George took a job as a postman, remaining on the reserve for his regiment. George taught in the Sunday School at Central Hall for over two years but also had connections to the Baptist Church.

At the outbreak of war George re-enlisted, in Norwich, and was immediately sent to France where he sustained a thigh wound from shrapnel whilst driving a convoy at the Battle of Aisne on 21st September. He was brought home to Southampton then to the Alexandra Hospital in Cosham, near Portsmouth, where he died a week later.

George's body was brought back to Bromley by A R Sharpe of Bromley Central Garage, West Street. In the "Record of Deceased Soldiers' Effects" the garage is shown as authorised to receive payment along with George's wife, only Jane received payment. She was also granted a pension of 18s.6d.per week until her children were 16 years old.

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