FRANK+BROOMHEAD

 Broomhead, Frank, Private, 5044, 14th Company, Australian Machine Gun Corps Born Hartington, Derbyshire Enlisted Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia Killed in action 1st February 1917 aged 20 Son of Henry and Fanny Broomhead, of Hartington, Buxton, England. Buried in Bancourt British Cemetery, IV, A, 7

Frank Broomhead enlisted on the 13th January 1916 at Liverpool in New South Wales. He was employed as a farmer, and had previously served for six months with the Boy Scouts. He stated his next of kin as his mother, Mrs. F. Shirley, of the Market Place, Hartington, Derbyshire. Five feet eight inches tall, he weighed 124 pounds, had a fair complexion, brown eyes and black hair, and belonged to the Church of England.

1911 Census A general farm worker A servant in the household of Emma Harrison, an innkeeper and farmer, of The Red Lion Inn, Hartington, Derbyshire

(Photograph of Frank Broomhead from the Ashbourne News, 2nd March 1917)


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