Geboortejaar: 1877

Geboorteplaats: Sandgate, Kent, Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk

Land: Engeland, Verenigd Koninkrijk

Strijdmacht: British Expeditionary Force

Rang: Lieutenant Colonel

Service nummer: /

Eenheden:  —  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)

Datum van overlijden: 11/08/1917

Plaats van overlijden: Duinkerke, Nord, Frankrijk

Doodsoorzaak: Killed in action (K.I.A.)

Leeftijd: 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.

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

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. Gebruikte bronnen

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