The war memorial of Lance Corporal Michael Brew, 2nd Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers, who died on 7 April 1915, aged 20, is located on the Le Touret Memorial in Pas de Calais, France (Panel 43). He was the son of M. and Jane Brew of 59 New Road, Thomondgate, Limerick.
The Memorial in Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue, is one of those erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to record the names of the officers and men who fell in the Great War and whose graves are not known. It serves the area enclosed on the North by the river Lys and a line drawn from Estaires to Fournes, and on the South by the old Southern boundary of the First Army about Grenay; and it covers the period from the arrival of the II Corps in Flanders in 1914 to the eve of the Battle of Loos, 25 September 1915.
The Le Touret Memorial is located at the east end of Le Touret Military Cemetery, on the south side of the D171, a secondary road linking Bethune and Armentieres, ca.12km north east of Bethune.
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© Photos taken by Steve Brew on 27 August 1999