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Thanks, Simon, I didn't even realise the medal was engraved - doh! As best as I can see it's:-
516886 PTE. G. A. BROAD 14-LOND. R. |
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I am sorry to say that George Albert Broad was killed in action at the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917.
Rank: Private Service No:516996 Date of Death:24/11/1917 Age:39 Regiment: 1st/14th Btn London Regiment (London Scottish). Panel Reference: Panel 11 and 12.Memorial:CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL Additional Information: Son of the late Albert and Mary Broad, of Whitehouse Farm, Bishopsworth, Bristol; husband of Ellen Elizabeth Broad, of 128, Ferme Park Rd., Hornsey, London. If he is a relative of yours please think carefully if you decide to sell his medals and badges because once they have been sold you are very unlikely to get them back. I know of many people who sold family medals years ago and have spent years trying to track them down. |
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I knew he died in the war, but not when or where.
Thanks, Simon, that's much appreciated. |
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You are welcome. It is poignant to note that George Broad arrived in France on the 3rd November 1917 and was killed in action on the 24th November three weeks later. Three weeks!
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Pleased that you are keeping these items. My great uncle was London Scottish and I only have a couple of pictures in uniform of him. Also distantly related to a young man who died with them on 31st October 1914.
My partner's great grandfather died at Cambrai with the 4th Worcestershire Regiment a couple of days before your relative and is named on the same memorial-No Known Grave. Regards, Paul. |
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I have a family grouping ( not my family ) of medals, photographs, badges, documents.
Father died on the Somme late 1916', I think about 10 days after joining his battalion, which attacked along what used to be a road at Guedecourt. Of his four sons ( and their half brother ) who all served in the army during WWII. the one named after him was captured at Singapore and died as a POW. |
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