Année de naissance: 1877

Lieu de naissance: Sandgate, Kent, Royaume-Uni, Angleterre

Pays: Royaume-Uni, Angleterre

Force armée: British Expeditionary Force

Rang: Lieutenant Colonel

Numéro de service: /

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

Date de décès: 11/08/1917

Lieu de décès: Duinkerke, Nord, France

Cause du décès: Killed in action (K.I.A.)

Âge: 40

1914-15 Star Médaille

British War Medal Médaille

Victory Medal Médaille

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 Sources utilisées

Ancestry http://search.ancestry.co.uk/ Sources utilisées

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

The Long Long Trail http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/ Sources utilisées

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