Private Walter Broad, 42507
- Batt - 2
- Unit - Durham Light Infantry
- Section -
- Date of Birth - 1897
- Died - 16/09/1916
- Age - 19
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ContributeSource: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. He was the son of Walter Broad a shoe riveter, born 1873 in Stamford, Lincs., and his wife Harriet, born 1879 in Stone, Staffs. Walter was born in 1897 in Leicester, his siblings were Edith, born 1901 and William, born 1894, both his siblings were born in Leicester, in March 1901 the family home was at 23, 1, Yard, Preston Street, Leicester.
Leicestershire Project Findings
- Conflict - World War I
- Burial Place - Guards' Cemetery, Lesboeufs, X.S.7., France
Research from Michael Doyle's Their Name Liveth For Evermore
- Unit - Durham Light Infantry
- Cause of death - KILLED IN ACTION
- Burial Commemoration - Guards Cem., Lesboeufs, Somme, France
- Born - Leicester
- Enlisted - Leicester
- Memorial - BRIDGE ROAD SCHOOL MEM., LEICESTER
