Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Ernest Broughton a hosiery warehouse cashier, born 1875 in Wigston Magna, Leics., and his wife Elizabeth Ann Broughton (nee Forryan), born 1874 in Wigston Magna, Leics. John Daykin Broughton was born in 1898 in Wigston Magna, Leics., he had one sibling, a sister Edith Emma, born 1901 in Wigston Magna, Leics., in March 1901 the family home was at Harcourt House, Welford Road, Wigston Magna, Leics. In April 1911 John was a scholar and was residing in the family home at Bulls Head Street, Wigston Magna, Leics., together with his father, now a hosiery manufacturer, his mother and siblings, Edith, Ernest Alford Broughton, born 1906 and Ernest Forryan Broughton, born 1906, the latter two siblings were both born in Wigston Magna, Leics., also residing with the family was his widowed maternal great aunt, Mary Forryan, born 1840 in Hoby, Leics. John Daykin was named after his grandfather who founded a notable hosiery factory in Bell Street, Wigston Magna, Leicestershire. John attended Wyggeston Boys School and was very clever and probably at University when he was called for war service as his occupation was listed as student. He attended the Primitive Methodist Church in Moat Street, Wigston Magna, Leicestershire. After attesting in the army reserve in October 1916, he was mobilized on the 14th February 1917, and became a trainee Caterpillar tractor driver, unfortunately he met with an accident and drowned in the River Euphrates near Ramadi, Iraq. On the 31st January 1920 the Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester published a Roll of Honour, this recorded that John had been a pupil at the school between the years 1909 and 1917.