Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Mary Ann Brooks.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Coalville Times article - Friday March 28th, 1919

COALVILLE SOLDIERS' DEATH IN GERMANY

Mr T. H. Brooks, of Mantle Lane, Coalville, and late of Ellistown, has received news from the War Office that his son, Private Thomas Henry Brooks, of the Northumberland Fusiliers, died at the prisoner of war camp at Minden, Germany, on October 24th, 1918, from gastric catarrh and exhaustion. He was one of Mr T. Frith’s old boys of the Belvoir Road Schools.

Coalville Times article - Friday October 24th, 1919

IN MEMORIAM

In loving memory of my beloved son, Private Thomas Henry Brooks, Northumberland Fusiliers, who died whilst a prisoner of war in Germany. Taken prisoner, 21st April, 1918. Died, October 24th, 1918. Aged 28 years.

From his loving Father and Stepmother. No. 8, Mantle Lane, Coalville

In loving memory of my beloved brother, Private Thomas Henry Brooks, Northumberland Fusiliers, who died whilst a prisoner of war in Germany. Taken prisoner, 21st April, 1918. Died, October 24th, 1918. Aged 28 years.

From his loving Brother and Wife, and Ruth, his niece.
Ellistown.

In loving memory of my dear husband, Pte. T. H. Brooks, who died whilst a prisoner of war in Germany, October 24th, 1918.

From his sorrowing Wife.

Research undertaken and submitted (including photograph from Coalville Times) by Andy Murby 21/9/2018