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Surname: BROUGHTON
Forename(s): Thomas Dugdale
Place of Birth: Sherborne, Gloucestershire
Service No: ---
Rank: T/2nd Lieutenant
Regiment / Corps / Service: King’s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)
Battalion / Unit: 7th (Service) Battalion
Division: 20th (Light) Division
Age: 31
Date of Death: 1917-04-10
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: II. H. 35.
CWGC Cemetery: BRAY MILITARY CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: SKIPTON – ERMYSTED’S GRAMMAR SCHOOL, YORKSHIRE
Local War Memorial: SKIPTON, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Thomas Dugdale Broughton (born 15 July 1886) was the son of Thomas and Grace Broughton, née Holgate. Thomas, senior, was born at Thornton-in-Craven and Grace at Gargrave, Yorkshire.
1891 Sherborne, Gloucestershire Census: Thos. D. Broughton, aged 4 years, born Sherborne, son of Thos. and Grace Broughton.
1901 Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales Census: Grammar School, Wye Bridge Street - Thomas Broughton, aged 14 years, born Skirborne, Gloucestershire. Student.
1911 Skipton, Yorkshire Census: Park House, Highfield Terrace - Thomas Dugdale Broughton, aged 24 years, born Sherborne, Gloucestershire, son of Grace Broughton, widow.
The British Army Service Record for Thomas Dugdale Broughton (1026) exists but may be incomplete. Thomas served pre-war with the 6th Bn Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) Territorial Force.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Thomas Dugdale Broughton, 5569, 28/Lond. R.; 2/Lieut Yorks L. I. Theatre of War first served in: France. Commissioned: 3/K.O.Y.L.I., 19.12.16. Decd. 10.4.17. D. of W. Correspondence: Mrs. G. Broughton, Park House, Highfield Terrace, Skipton in Craven, Yorks.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: 2 Lieut T. D. Broughton. D. of W. 10.4.17.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: 2 Lt T. D. Broughton, 7 K.O.Y.L.I. Date and Place of Death: 10.4.17. Of wounds. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: The London City & Midland Bank Ltd. for credit to the a/c of The Public Trustee. £44 14s. 5d.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) for Thomas not found.
A short biography of Thomas is included in: ‘A Grammar School at War – The Story of Ermysted’s Grammar School during the Great War’ by Steven Howarth (2007).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
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BROUGHTON, Lieut. Len, aged 30, K.O.Y.L.I., son of the late Mr. Thos. Broughton, and of Mrs. Broughton, Park House, Hothfield Terrace, [Skipton], killed in action, France, 1917.
BROUGHTON, Thos. D., 10th April, 1917. [Additional]
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T/2nd Lieutenant Thomas Dugdale BROUGHTON
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: King’s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 20th (Light) Division
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BROUGHTON, T. D., 2nd Lieutenant King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Died of wounds in hospital April 1917. Skipton R. F. C.
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13 April 1917
BROUGHTON - Killed in action in France, Lieutenant Tom Broughton, K.O.Y.L.I., son of Mrs. Broughton, Highfield Terrace, Skipton, aged 30 years.
13 April 1917
SKIPTON OFFICER KILLED - LIEUTENANT TOM BROUGHTON
We deeply regret to announce that a telegraphic message was received yesterday of the death in action on Tuesday of Lieutenant Tom Broughton, of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, son of the late Mr. Thomas Broughton and Mrs. Broughton, of Park House, Highfield Terrace, Skipton. No particulars are yet available, but apparently the deceased officer met his death during the great victory of the British Army between Arras and Lens on the date named.
Lieut. Broughton was 30 years of age and an officer of great promise. He joined the Artist's Rifles at the latter end of 1915, and after the customary course of training was transferred to the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, and went out to France soon after Christmas last year. He was educated first at Skipton Grammar School and afterwards at Monmouth's Grammar School, and subsequently became interested in a firm of cotton cloth manufacturers at Bradford. A keen athlete, he played half-back with the Skipton Rugby Union Football team and was also a member of the Skipton Golf Club. His brother George is Adjutant of the 2nd and 6th Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment.
With the bereaved mother and family there will be sincere sympathy amongst neighbours and friends of all degrees that a career of so much promise should have been thus prematurely ended. As in other similarly distressing cases, however, we trust it will be some consolation to them to know that his life has been given in a great cause, and for the service of the highest human interests.
20 April 1917
THE LATE T. D. BROUGHTON, OF SKIPTON
With reference to the death from wounds received in action of Second-Lieutenant Thomas Dugdale Broughton, son of the late Mr. Thomas Broughton and Mrs. Broughton, of Park House, Highfield Terrace, Skipton (as briefly announced in our last issue), information has now been received that he was shot in the arm at 10-30 p.m. on Easter Monday, and that he died on the following day. As supplementary to the particulars we gave last week of the deceased officer, it might be stated that after leaving school he attended Technical College, Bradford, for several years, and subsequently joined the firm of Messrs. H.A. Gray and Co., worsted manufacturers, Valley Mills, Bradford. He joined the Artists' Rifles in November 1915, and after the usual training at Camberley Staff College, he was given a commission in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. His two brothers, Captain and Adjutant George Broughton, and Second-Lieut. and Assistant Staff Captain Jack Broughton, are also serving with the West Riding Regiment.
04 July 1919
PEACE SUPPLEMENT TO THE 'CRAVEN HERALD' - CRAVEN'S FALLEN OFFICERS
SECOND-LIEUTENANT T. D. BROUGHTON
King's Own Yorks. L.I., son of the late Mr. Thomas Broughton and Mrs. Broughton, Park House, Highfield Terrace, Skipton, died in hospital in April, 1917, from wounds received in action.
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13 April 1917
BROUGHTON - April 10th, in France, Lieut. Tom Broughton, of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, son of the late Mr. Thomas Broughton and Mrs. Broughton, of Park House, Highfield Terrace, Skipton, aged 30.
13 April 1917
SKIPTON LIEUTENANT KILLED
Lieutenant Tom Broughton, of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, news of whose death in action on April 10th was received by telegram from the War Office yesterday, was the son of the late Mr. Thos. Broughton and Mrs. Broughton, of Park House, Highfield Terrace, Skipton. Lieut. Broughton, who was thirty years of age, joined the Artists' Rifles at the latter end of 1915, and after a course of training he was transferred to the K O.Y.L.I., going out to France soon after Christmas of last year. Prior to enlisting he was interested in a firm of cotton and cloth manufacturers at Bradford. He wan a keen athlete and formerly played half-back with the Skipton Rugby football team. He was also a member of the Skipton Golf Club. He was educated at the Skipton and Monmouth Grammar Schools. He has also another brother, Adjutant George Broughton, in the army, who is serving with the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment.
14 December 1917
FOUNDER'S DAY AT SKIPTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL
A Fifteenth Century Foundation - War Memorial Proposed
COMMEMORATION SERVICE
Wednesday's proceedings were opened with a service in commemoration not only of the founders and benefactors of the school but also of the gallant men who formerly passed through the school and who had given their lives for their country in the present war. The service was conducted by the headmaster (Rev. F.G. Forder) in the big school and there was a good attendance of old boys and others interested in the school. The names of the fallen heroes are as follows:- 2nd Lieut. T.B. Bellamy, Captain C.D. Bennett, 2nd Lieut. T.D. Broughton, Captain C.W. Brown, Gunner Philip Brown, Corporal H.S. Caw, Sergt. J. Cockerill, 2nd Lieut. H. Colley (master), Major M.E. Cookson, 2nd Lieut. E.G. Goodman, 2nd Lieut. F.H. Gill, Private W. Hartley, Rifleman W.M. Jowett, Lieut. H. Knowles, 2nd Lieut. C.H. Lee (master), 2nd Lieut. J.C. McIntyre, Captain J.B. McKay, Lance-Corporal A.J. Metcalfe, J.H. [E.] Metcalfe, Private E. Platt, Private C.T.W. Rigby, 2nd Lieut. W.A. Rodwell, Sergt. A.F. Ryder, Lieut. E.J.C. Supple (master), Private F. Thornton, Rifleman H. Tindall, Sergt. H. Walker, Gunner Herbert Watson, 2nd Lieut. Alec Wilson, Private Cameron Wilson, 2nd Lieut. Ian Wilson.
Among the old boys who have gained distinctions are the following:- Military Cross, Second-Lieutenant J.G. Berry, Second-Lieutenant J.B. Hartley, Captain J.T. Hurst, Lieut. P. Jowett, Lieut. J. Petty, and Capt. T.B. Pollard (master); Distinguished Conduct Medal, Corpl. W.A. Murgatroyd; Mentioned in Despatches, Lieut. J. Pethybridge, Capt. Allan Wilson, and many others.
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