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Sidney Howard Broom

Ancestry site Military records
Private Sidney Howard Broome, born Tutnal and Cobley, Worcs., resided in Redditch,
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enlisted in Stourbridge, Service No 41776, 8 Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, killed in
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action, 5 August 1917, Western European Theatre. Remembered on Ypres (Menin Gate)
Memorial, Belgium, Panel 22. Also recorded on Ireland’s Memorial Records 1914-1918.
Forces War Records, Private Sidney Howard Broom’s father was John Broom of Salter’s
Lane, Redditch.

Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial – source:- http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-
cemetery/cemetery/91800/YPRES%20(MENIN%20GATE)%20MEMORIAL

Remembered on St Bartholomew’s war memorial, Tardebigge.

(Sidney Howard was born in 1898 in the Bromsgrove District. On the 1911 census Sidney Howard Broom aged
13, Boy on Farm, lived with his parents John, Gamekeeper and Eliza and siblings in Brockhill Lane, Redditch.)

He is remembered on the Inniskilling Fusiliers Regiment Roll of Honour:-
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~econnolly/rohsdgw/royalinniskillingfusiliers/inniskillingfu
siliers08.html

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