Captain Sydney Edward Brock succumbed on this date in 1918 to wounds sustained a month earlier at Courtrai. He was thirty-five years old.
According to his contemporaries, Brock had ahead of him an important career as an amateur ornithologist, entomologist, and ecologist. He was one of that class that Robert Shufeldt, warning a few years earlier of the likely effects of the war on science, had described as “of exceptional and unique value and actively at work upon scientific researches” in their field.
Brock died on the very day that the First World War came to its official close.
