The Soldier's Details
- Surname:
- Brooker
- First Name:
- John Allen
- Rank:
- Private
- Regimental #:
- WX9288
- Classification:
- Driver
- Company:
- 'A' Company, 6 Platoon
- Enlisted:
- 30.10.1940
- DOB:
- 16.04.1917
- Place of Birth:
- Medstead, England
- Father's Name:
- John Alfred Brooker
- Mothers's Name:
- Innocence Eleanor Brooker (nee Wells)
- Religion:
- Church of England
- Pre-war Occupation:
- Labourer
- Memorial:
- Kranji War Cemetery, Collective Grave, Plot 30, Row A, Grave 5-8, Age 24.
- Cause of Death:
- Killed in Action
- Place of Death:
- Buona Vista
- Date of Death:
- 15.02.1942
- Buried:
- Where killed in common grave at map reference 784112. Soldier was killed during an enemy artillery barrage.
General Description
Allen Brooker enlisted AIF 30 Oct 1940 and later joined ‘A’ Company No. 6 Platoon under Commanding Officers Lt Morrison and Lt. Branson.
Brooker was KIA Buona Vista during an enemy artillery barrage on 15 Feb 1942. He was 24 years of age.
Front L-R: A Brooker KIA. W. Breed, John Waddell, 12th Platoon.
Please read about the boys from Newdegate
Alex Hack was sent to Sandakan, North Borneo from Singapore with ‘B’ Force Borneo. He died on the Sandakan to Ranau Track 4 Feb 1945 of illness brought about by deliberate starvation by the Japanese in charge of Sandakan POW Camp. Hack from Boyup Brook was 38 years old.
Allen’s parents married in Ontario, Canada in 1907. They moved to India where their first two children were born, Florence in 1909 and Henry in 1910.
The Brooker family returned to England where their third child John ‘Allen’ was born Medstead England in 1917.
It is not known when the family moved to Western Australia – taking up land at Newdegate.
Below: John Waddell’s letter to his family confirms Allen, Don McGlinn and Charlie Roberts have died.
In Jan 1954, Allen’s mother Eleanor ‘Nell’ died aged 74 years.
