BROCKELBANK, LAURENCE SEYMOUR, Lieutenant, 3rd, attached 1st, Battalion King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, son of George Seymour Brockelbank, of Elm Lodge, Blackheath, member of the London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Julia, daughter of the late Henry Turner, of Court Lodge, Knockholt, Kent; b. Eliot Park, Blackheath, 21 Sept. 1892; educated Lindesfurn, Lee and Tonbridge School; entered the army as 2nd Lieutenant 3rd Battalion King's Own, 5 May, 1914, and is believed to have been killed at the Battle of Cambray, 26 Aug. 1914, being reported missing from that date.
Lieutenant Douglas C. Robinson wrote, 1 Nov. 1914: "On 26 Aug. all the young officers had been accounted for except your boy. Some of the Lancashire Fusiliers told me when they went up to clear away the wounded that they saw a very young-looking officer, the description of which tallied with your son, lying dead absolutely next to our Colonel (Col. Dykes). Unfortunately we could not get up to them afterwards."
From a statement made to the Rev. Gabin McFadyeen, of Saltash, by Private Copperwhaite, who had for some time acted as Lieutenant Brockelbank's servant, it appears that the "King's Own" had been surprised by the German machine guns and lost heavily. Lieutenant Brockelbank led his men heroically after he had been wounded, but a retreat became necessary, and while that was in progress he was killed instantaneously by the bursting of a shell.
According to the list compiled by Captain Davy, R.A.M.C., he was buried at Hautcourt, between Cambray and Le Cateau. He was gazetted Lieutenant 2 Feb. 1915; unmarried.
[Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December 1916]
Lieutenant Douglas C. Robinson wrote, 1 Nov. 1914: "On 26 Aug. all the young officers had been accounted for except your boy. Some of the Lancashire Fusiliers told me when they went up to clear away the wounded that they saw a very young-looking officer, the description of which tallied with your son, lying dead absolutely next to our Colonel (Col. Dykes). Unfortunately we could not get up to them afterwards."
From a statement made to the Rev. Gabin McFadyeen, of Saltash, by Private Copperwhaite, who had for some time acted as Lieutenant Brockelbank's servant, it appears that the "King's Own" had been surprised by the German machine guns and lost heavily. Lieutenant Brockelbank led his men heroically after he had been wounded, but a retreat became necessary, and while that was in progress he was killed instantaneously by the bursting of a shell.
According to the list compiled by Captain Davy, R.A.M.C., he was buried at Hautcourt, between Cambray and Le Cateau. He was gazetted Lieutenant 2 Feb. 1915; unmarried.
[Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December 1916]
BROCKELBANK, LAURENCE SEYMOUR, Lieutenant, 3rd, attached 1st, Battalion King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, son of George Seymour Brockelbank, of Elm Lodge, Blackheath, member of the London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Julia, daughter of the late Henry Turner, of Court Lodge, Knockholt, Kent; b. Eliot Park, Blackheath, 21 Sept. 1892; educated Lindesfurn, Lee and Tonbridge School; entered the army as 2nd Lieutenant 3rd Battalion King's Own, 5 May, 1914, and is believed to have been killed at the Battle of Cambray, 26 Aug. 1914, being reported missing from that date.
Lieutenant Douglas C. Robinson wrote, 1 Nov. 1914: "On 26 Aug. all the young officers had been accounted for except your boy. Some of the Lancashire Fusiliers told me when they went up to clear away the wounded that they saw a very young-looking officer, the description of which tallied with your son, lying dead absolutely next to our Colonel (Col. Dykes). Unfortunately we could not get up to them afterwards."
From a statement made to the Rev. Gabin McFadyeen, of Saltash, by Private Copperwhaite, who had for some time acted as Lieutenant Brockelbank's servant, it appears that the "King's Own" had been surprised by the German machine guns and lost heavily. Lieutenant Brockelbank led his men heroically after he had been wounded, but a retreat became necessary, and while that was in progress he was killed instantaneously by the bursting of a shell.
According to the list compiled by Captain Davy, R.A.M.C., he was buried at Hautcourt, between Cambray and Le Cateau. He was gazetted Lieutenant 2 Feb. 1915; unmarried.
[Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December 1916]
Lieutenant Douglas C. Robinson wrote, 1 Nov. 1914: "On 26 Aug. all the young officers had been accounted for except your boy. Some of the Lancashire Fusiliers told me when they went up to clear away the wounded that they saw a very young-looking officer, the description of which tallied with your son, lying dead absolutely next to our Colonel (Col. Dykes). Unfortunately we could not get up to them afterwards."
From a statement made to the Rev. Gabin McFadyeen, of Saltash, by Private Copperwhaite, who had for some time acted as Lieutenant Brockelbank's servant, it appears that the "King's Own" had been surprised by the German machine guns and lost heavily. Lieutenant Brockelbank led his men heroically after he had been wounded, but a retreat became necessary, and while that was in progress he was killed instantaneously by the bursting of a shell.
According to the list compiled by Captain Davy, R.A.M.C., he was buried at Hautcourt, between Cambray and Le Cateau. He was gazetted Lieutenant 2 Feb. 1915; unmarried.
[Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December 1916]
Gravesite Details
Second Lieutenant, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment). Age: Unknown.
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