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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]Eastwood & Kimberley Advertiser 18th May 1917 ONE OF TWO CODNOR BROTHERS KILLED PTE MAURICE WILLIAM HOLBROOK Codnor Sherwood Foresters Official information has been received by his widowed mother of the death in action of Pte Maurice Holbrook, which occurred in France on April 27th. He was 26 years of age, and the third son of the late Mr. J.C. Holbrook, monumentalist, of Codnor, and nephew of Mr. J.W. Rawlins, The Gardens Ripley. In civil life he, in partnership with his eldest brother, Pte, Charles Holbrook, carried on the business established by their father, and both joined his Majesty's forces under the Derby scheme. Pte Holbrook was a general favorite owing to his bright and cheerful disposition, and in his life as a soldier, he made light of all difficulties, and when writing home always refrained and from complaints of any hardships. Much sympathy has been expressed with his relatives in their great sorrow, and his officer said of him in a letter to his mother; "I always found him very willing and keen. I was very fond of him, and his death came as a great shock to me. Please accept my deepest sympathy in your sad bereavement, always remembering that he did his duty and led a good and clean life". [/quote]
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Eastwood & Kimberley Advertiser
18th May 1917
ONE OF TWO CODNOR
BROTHERS KILLED
PTE MAURICE WILLIAM HOLBROOK
Codnor
Sherwood Foresters
Official information has been received by his widowed mother of the death in action of Pte Maurice Holbrook, which occurred in France on April 27th.
He was 26 years of age, and the third son of the late Mr. J.C. Holbrook, monumentalist, of Codnor, and nephew of Mr. J.W. Rawlins, The Gardens Ripley. In civil life he, in partnership with his eldest brother, Pte, Charles Holbrook, carried on the business established by their father, and both joined his Majesty's forces under the Derby scheme.
Pte Holbrook was a general favorite owing to his bright and cheerful disposition, and in his life as a soldier, he made light of all difficulties, and when writing home always refrained and from complaints of any hardships.
Much sympathy has been expressed with his relatives in their great sorrow, and his officer said of him in a letter to his mother; "I always found him very willing and keen. I was very fond of him, and his death came as a great shock to me. Please accept my deepest sympathy in your sad bereavement, always remembering that he did his duty and led a good and clean life".

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