Eric Brookes

Who was Eric Brookes?

Captain Eric Guy Brookes was a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories.

Brookes was a Sopwith Camel pilot with 65 Squadron. He garnered four victories between 25 May and 2 July 1918. By the beginning of August, he was an acting captain, and on the 3rd was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross. Midday on 8 August, he, Lieutenant Joseph Leonard Maries White, and three other pilots managed to force down two German Fokker D.VII fighters behind Allied lines, where they were captured. Brookes did not return from a later mission that day.