From the Democrat and Chronicle on Tuesday, July 15th 1919.

Raymond P. Brooks was born in Providence, R. I., October 29, 1897, son of Henry H. and Venetta Brooks. He moved to Rochester with his parents at an early age. Here he became a member of Grace Methodist Church, the Epworth League, the Y.M.C.A., and the Loyal Order of Moose. He was graduated from West High School in the class of 1915. He was employed by the Rochester Cold Storage Company as a solicitor and collector. He entered the service, in the Quartermaster Corps, at Buffalo, N. Y., May 25, 1918, at the age of 20 years, as a Private, being assigned to Company E, 106th Supply Train, 31st Division. He was trained at Camp Wheeler, Macon, Georgia. After making
several trips across the country in trucks he embarked overseas, October 21, 1918, on the transport Sobral, and arrived at Brest, France, November 3, 1918. He did convoy duty in France. Promoted to Corporal, November 12, 1918. The last four months of his stay in France, he drove a bus between Paulhos and Bordeaux. He re-embarked for America, the latter part of June, 1919, on the transport Cape May. On the way home volunteers were called for to shovel coal and he was one of the first to respond, but three days before landing he was taken with acute appendicitis. He reached Charleston, S. C, July 5, 1919, and was taken to the Naval Hospital, where he died of general peritonitis, following an operation, July 10, 1919. He was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Batavia, N. Y., Lot number 321.

from World War Service Record Rochester and Monroe County, NY, The Du Bose Press, Rochester, NY – published by the City of Rochester, 1924.