Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of William Brotherhood a stone quarry man, born 1846 in Markfield, Leics., and his late wife Hannah, born 1848 in Groby, Leics. Louis Edward was born in 1884 in Groby, Leics., his siblings were Sarah A., born 1871, William H., born 1873, Annie E., born 1878 and Herbert, born 1883, all his siblings were born in Groby, Leics., in April 1891the family were residing at Ratby Road, Ratby, Leics., being the home of Tim and Mary A. Newman. In March 1901 Louis was employed as a granite quarry man and was residing in the family home at Ratby Road, Groby, Leics., together with his remarried father and step mother, Isabella, born 1853 in Leicester. In April 1911 Louis was employed as a crushing mill quarry man and was residing as a boarder at Leicester Road, Whitwick, Leics.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Photograph and following biography supplied by M. Knight, 17/08/2017
'Lewis Brotherhood married Selina Hall and had three daughters Ann, Kate, and Doris. He saw Doris only once when on leave when she was two months old. He returned to the front and was killed within days. Doris lived in Groby many years with her husband Ted until her death. Her son, grandchildren and great-grand children still live in the village'.

Coalville Times article - Friday November 2nd, 1917

LOCAL CASUALTIES

News has been received that Sergeant Louis E. Brotherhood, a Whitwick man, has been killed in action. Writing to his wife, who with her three children, resides in the City of Dan, Whitwick. An officer says the sergeant was a splendid man, loved by all the men in his section, and it will be hard to replace him. He died instantly and was buried near to where he fell. He had been in the thick of the fighting in France since 1914, having been called up when war broke out and he received his first stripe almost immediately. He was in the Northumberland Fusiliers.

Coalville Times article - Friday September 27th 1918

IN MEMORIAM


In loving memory of my dear husband, Sergeant L. E. Brotherhood, late M.G.C. killed September 26th, 1917.

“A loving husband, a father kind
A beautiful memory left behind
His willing hands and smiling face
No one in our hearts will fill his vacant place.”

From his loving Wife and Children. (Late of Whitwick)

Research undertaken and submitted by Andy Murby 29/12/2017