Pilot Officer Alfred Victor Brooks was from Chatham.

He was promoted to Pilot Officer on 5 December 1941.

He was part of the crew of Wing Commander James, commanding officer of 9 Squadron RAF. Pilot Officer Brooks was killed in action on 21 June 1942, on  a mission to Emden.

It is not known how P/O Brooks and his crew were lost. He was 22.

9 Sqn RAF

 

(picture by Wim Bastiaanse)

Leens, The Netherlands

See Also:
Wing Commander Leslie Vidal James
PO John David Baxter
Fl Sgt Arthur Adair
Sgt Jack Brown

Acknowledgements:
RAF Squadron crest © Crown Copyright is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office

Sources:
The London Gazette
The History of 9 Squadron, F/O T. Mason, 1965

Directions to Leens General Cemetery

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