BORN HULL 05/09/1876. ELDEST SON OF ROBERT BROADWELL AND ANNIE ELIZABETH PETERSON. SON OF A BLACKSMITH. EDUCATED AT BLUNDELL STREET BOARD SCHOOL. SERVED FOR SEVEN YEARS IN THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. THEN WORKED FOR 21 YEARS FOR CHARLES HATFIELD COAL MERCHANTS, PRIOR TO THE WAR. HE MARRIED LILY ATKINSON AT SCULCOATES IN 1898. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, IN AUGUST 1914 AND WAS KILLED AT NEUVE CHAPPELLE, ON 9TH APRIL 1915, AGED 38. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL IN YPRES.
HE LEFT WIDOW, LILLY ATKINSON AND FIVE CHILDREN, LIVING AT 1 FAWCETT TERRACE, DERBY STREET AND AT THIS ADDRESS. ALL HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO LILY. HIS DETAILS ARE LISTED IN THE DE RUVIGNY ROLL OF HONOUR, VOLUME 1.
HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 29TH APRIL 1915,AND THE HULL TIMES, ON 1ST MAY 1915. *
HE LEFT BROTHERS, WALTER AND JAMES BROADWELL AND FIVE CHILDREN ROBERT WILLIAM, HARRY, LAURA, LILY AND MURIEL.
Broadwell, Thomas
First name:
THOMAS
Regiment:
Military Number:
3/6675
Rank:
Private
Date Died
09/04/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
38
7 WALTER'S TERRACE, WEST PARADE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
