Corporal Alfred Edwin-Brooker, who \ .died of wounds in France on 26th April, ' is a son of Mr. E r E. Brooker, of Wei- J lington. Corporal Brooker, who was 24 1 years,of agei was born at Collingwood; I Nelson, a,nd joined the Main Body on f the outbreak of the war. He was 1 wounded at the Dardanelles in April, t 1915, and returned to New Zealand, in J October of the same- year." After five I ■months treatment at Rotorua he return- ,) ed to England with : the 18th - Reinforce- \ mentsj and was appointed an instructor' ) at Sling Camp, ''Salisbury. : Last No vein- \ ber Corporal Brooker felt that he must be in the thick of it again, and joined his old: unit" (the: Wellington Infantry Battalion) in prance. He put in six .'months, fighting .before he finally fell lart mouth. -: . . .
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 106, 4 May 1917, Page 7
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