Broughton Men & Women in World War II

Broughtons in World War II

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EDWARD CHRISTOPHER BROUGHTON - Private, Royal Army Service Corps. He died on Saturday, 26th April 1941 at the age of 24. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Broughton. His memorial is on Face 8 of the Athens Memorial in Phaleron War Cemetery in Greece. Athens Memorial commemorates nearly 3,000 members of the land forces of the British Commonwealth and Empire who lost their lives during the campaigns in Greece and Crete in 1941 and 1944-1945, in the Dodecanese Islands in 1943-1945 and in Yugoslavia in 1943-1945, and who have no known grave.
ERDLEY BROUGHTON - Trooper, 3rd King's Own Hussars, R.A.C.
He died on Monday, 2nd November 1942. His memorial is on Column 23 of the Alamein Memorial, which forms the entrance to the El Alamein War Cemetery, about 130 kilometres west of Alexandria on the road to Mersa Matruh. The Alamein Memorial commemorates nearly 12,000 World War II casualties, including ground forces who fell in campaigns in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Persia. It also is a memorial to Commonwealth airmen who perished in the campaigns in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Greece, Crete, the Aegean, Ethiopia, Eritrea, the Somalilands, the Sudan, East Africa, Aden and Madagascar.
ERNEST BROUGHTON - Able Seaman (C/HD/X 108) H.M.S. Carlisle., Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He died on Thursday, 22nd May 1941. He was 21 and the son of Ernest and Ethel Broughton, of Hull. His memorial is on Panel Number: 50. 1. on the Chatham Naval Memorial, which is located up a steep path from the Chatham Town Hall Gardens in Chatham, Kent, UK.
ERNEST WILLIAM BROUGHTON - Fusilier, 8th Bn., Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.) He died on Friday, 21st May 1943. He was 23 and the husband of Joyce Vera Broughton, of Colchester, Essex. His memorial is on Panel Number: III. E. 4. at the Enfidaville War Cemetery, about 100 kilometres south of Tunis, Tunisia.