BROSTER, John
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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
CWGC
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/49.
ROH in Commando-Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2 by Brig Durnford-Slater.
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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