RONALD BROOKE – RN – 1951

Name included on Armed Forces Memorial, National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire Ronald joined Old Gosden in 1932 from his home in Ledbury, transferring to LWC in 1935 and left in 1942 having passed the Oxford School Certificate.

He was apprenticed to Dowsett Construction Co Ltd in Colwall, Herefordshire but at some stage joined the Navy.

Ronald died whilst serving in the Fleet Air Arm at HMS Heron (now known as RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset.