Year of birth: 1877

Place of birth: Sandgate, Kent, England, United Kingdom

Country: England, United Kingdom

Force: British Expeditionary Force

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel

Service number: /

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

Date of death: 11/08/1917

Place of death: Dunkerque, Nord, France

Cause of death: Killed in action (K.I.A.)

Age: 40

1914-15 Star Medal

British War Medal Medal

Victory Medal Medal

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.

10 Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (Pioneers) (The National Archives, KEW (TNA), WO 95/1335/1. https://nationalarchives.gov.uk Sources used

Tonbridge School, 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. Sources used

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/164140

Namenlijst (In Flanders Fields Museum) https://namenlijst.org/publicsearch/#/person/_id=6fc45431-570d-44cd-bf80-f55bb15ec052

Lives of the First World War (Imperial War Museum) https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/38438