BROSTER, John

Rank: 
Private
Unit / Base: 
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Cheshire Regiment
Service: 
Army
Number: 
4132075
Died : 
Wednesday, August 19, 1942
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
34
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Local Roll of Honour: 
Private John Broster was killed in action during operations at Dieppe, France. *Husband of Mrs Mary Broster of Curzon Road, Offerton, Stockport, and elder son of Mrs Broster of Greystoke Street. Father to a little daughter. Educated Banks Lane Council School. Employed as Head Clerk of a hat manufacturing firm. Member of Offerton Cricket Club and a keen fisherman
 
Sources
CWGC
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/49.
ROH in Commando-Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2 by Brig Durnford-Slater.
*Report in the Alderley & Wilmslow Advertiser 28 August 1942.
 
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