CHARLES CYRIL BROCKLEBANK
28 July 1900 - 18 November 1918
At School 1912 - 1916
Cadet Manchester University OTC
Charles (Cyril) was born in 1900 in Heaton Norris, Stockport and in 1901, aged 9 months, was
living at 6 Moorside Road, Heaton Norris with father Charles, a Commercial Traveller in the tea
and coffee industry, mother Martha, elder brother Herbert and one general domestic servant. By
1911 the family had moved to 20 Ellesmere Road, Heaton Chapel. Herbert, aged 14,
was attending School and Cyril followed him to School a year later.
After leaving School , Cyril became a student of Textiles, with Greg Bros, Manchester. In
January 1918 he went to Manchester University and joined the OTC. Cyril served as a cadet but
on 18 November 1918 he died of influenza and pneumonia at home, "Waingroves", named after
his mother's family home in Derbyshire and was buried at Codnor Parish Church, near to his
mother's family.
Cyril's brother Herbert joined the Duke of Lancaster's Yeomanry in 1915 and was later that
year commissioned into the 5th Cheshire Regiment. In 1916 he transferred to the 19th
Hussars and embarked to France on 4th January 1917. At some later stage he was transferred
to the Southern Irish Horse. In 1918, as a Lieutenant, he was reported to have been in hospital
with concussion and gas poisoning. Fortunately he survived the War.