Joseph Victor Brookes was killed on the 30 July 1942 at Holbrooks Works, Ashted Row. Joseph was 19 years of age when this happened.
Additional Notes:
Raid 61 - From ‘Brum Undaunted’ by Carl Chinn - 30th July 1942 ‘incendiaries came down in showers’ and ‘there were grievous happenings in poorer quarters where houses hit by the explosive bombs collapsed on the inmates’ (Quotes from Birmingham Mail 28th July 1942)
