Geburtsjahr: 1877

Geburtsort: Sandgate, Kent, England, Vereinigtes Königreich

Land: England, Vereinigtes Königreich

Truppe: British Expeditionary Force

Rang: Lieutenant Colonel

Dienstnummer: /

Einheiten:  —  Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 10th Bn.  (Angeschlossen)  —  Northamptonshire Regiment attd. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, 10th Bn. (Attached as Divisional Pioneer Bn.)  (Angeschlossen)

Sterbedatum: 11/08/1917

Sterbeort: Dunkerque, Nord, France

Todesursache: Im Kampf gefallen

Alter: 40

1914-15 Star Medaille

British War Medal Medaille

Victory Medal Medaille

On August 11th 1917, shortly after midnight, the vicinity of the military camp (R.33.a.4.8.) was shelled. At 1.30 a.m. the shelling became more localised. At 1.45 a.m. a shell struck the HeadQuarter mess, localised near Dunkirk, several miles behind the frontline. At the HeadQuarter mess, Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Alfred Brooke Alston, Major G. B. Stratton and Lieutenant Adjutant H. L. Slingsby were asleep, when it was struck. Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Alfred Brooke was one of the people who were instantaneously killed. He was originally buried in St. George's Cemetery, Newport, Dunkirk before his reburial in Ramscappelle Road Military Cemetery.

"Tonbridge School and the Great War of 1914-1919. A record of the services of Tonbridgians in the Great War of 1914 to 1919", Londen en Tonbridge, The Whitefriars Press Ltd., 1923, p. 11-12, 371-372 Verwendete Quellen

Ancestry http://search.ancestry.co.uk/ Verwendete Quellen

CWGC http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/164140/ALSTON,%20ERNEST%20ALFRED%20BROOKE Verwendete Quellen

The Long Long Trail http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/ Verwendete Quellen

War Diary 10th Bn. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 9th august 1917-12th august 1917 http://www.nmarchive.com/ Verwendete Quellen