Broughton men in World War I

Broughtons in World War I

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F BROUGHTON - Private - 2nd Bn., Leicestershire Regiment
He died on Monday, 25th January 1915. His memorial is on Panel Number I.A.8 on the Le Touret Memorial in the Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L'Avoue, Pas de Calais, France. The memorial commemorates over 13,000 men who fell in the area before 25 September 1915 and who have no known grave.
FRANK BROUGHTON - Private - 2nd Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regt.)
He died on Sunday, 15th October 1916 at the age of 25. His parents were Fred and Susan Broughton, of Top Farm, Cold Huntworth Hackthorn, Lincoln. His memorial is on Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A on the Thiepval Memorial which is located on the D73, off the main Bapaume to Albert road in Somme, France.
FRED BROUGHTON - Private - 1st Bn., Northamptonshire Regiment
He died on Wednesday, 13th October 1915 at the age of 19. He was the son of Mrs. J. I. Broughton, of Beach Lane, Eye, Peterborough. His memorial is on Panel #91 to 93 of the Loos Memorial in Dud Corner Cemetery near Loos-en-Gohelle village northwest of Lens, Pas de Calais, France. The Loos Memorial commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay, and who have no known grave.
FREDERICK BROUGHTON - Private - 2nd/5th Bn., Lancashire Fusiliers
He died on Tuesday, 12th September 1916 at the age of 21. His parents were Mr. L. H. and Mrs. M. A. Broughton, of 9, St. Paul St., Bury. His memorial is on Panel Number V.A.10 at Delville Wood Cemetery east of the village Longueval, Somme, France. There are now over 5,500 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, nearly two-thirds are unidentified and special memorials are erected to 26 soldiers from the United Kingdom and one from South Africa, known or believed to be buried among them.
FREDERICK ARTHUR BROUGHTON - Private - 2nd Bn., Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
He died on Saturday, 22nd February 1919 at the age of 36. He was the son of Rosina Broughton, of Lavender Hill, London, and the late Edwin Joseph Broughton. His memorial is on Panel Number 1281 in the Mikra British Cemetery, approximately 8 kilometers south of Thessaloniki near Kalamaria, Greece. The Mikra Memorial commemorates nurses, officers and men of the forces of the Empire who lost their lives in the Mediterranean and whose only grave is the sea. Their link with the place of the memorial is, in most instances, the fact that others who went down in the same vessel were washed ashore and identified, and are now buried at Thessalonika.
FREDERICK GEORGE BROUGHTON - Stoker 1st Class - H.M.S. Thisbe, Royal Navy
He died on Wednesday, 19th March 1919 at the age 21. He was the son of Mrs. Elsie Marley, of Capel Cottage, Luton, Chatham. His memorial is on Panel Number: Naval.11.565 in the Gilligham (Woodlands) Cemetery in Kent, United Kingdom. The 1914-1918 burials number over 800 and are mainly in the naval reservation.
FREDERICK JAMES BROUGHTON - Lance Corporal - 17th Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps
He died on Sunday, 11th June 1916 at the age of 21. He was the son of Mrs. Eleanor Broughton, of 22, Chalmers St., Battersea, London. His memorial is on Panel Number III.G.26 at Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L'Avoue, Pas de Calais, France. The Le Touret Memorial commemorates over 13,000 men who fell in this area before 25 September 1915 and who have no known grave. There are now over 900, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. The graves of three men of the King's Liverpool Regiment, which were destroyed by shell fire, are now represented by special headstones.
FREDERICK JOHN BROUGHTON - Private - 10th Bn., Australian Infantry, A.I.F
He died on Tuesday, 27th April 1915. His memorial is on Panel Number I.B.14 in the Beach Cemetery which is situated on what was known as Hell Spit, at the southern point of Anzac Cove. Beach Cemetery was used from the day of the Landing at Anzac, almost until the Evacuation. There are now nearly 400, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site. Of these, over 20 are unidentified and the names of ten soldiers from Australia, one from New Zealand, for whose burial in the cemetery there is evidence, are recorded on special tablets.