Serjeant 11492 Thomas Henry Brogden
Regiment/Unit: Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) - 1st Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Age at death: 30
Date of death: 11th of March 1915
Born: Broughton, Lancs
Resided: Searborough, Yorks
Burial / Memorial: Le Touret Memorial - Panel 26 and 27.
Family details:
Next of Kin on attestation papers. Mr John Joseph Brogden, 12 Duke Street, St Helens. Son of the late Thomas and Ada Jane Brogden. Siblings are legatees.
Census details:
1901 - 8 years old Thomas Henry is living at 14, Duke Street, St Helens with his parents Thomas (38), Ada J (30) and three siblings: Nellie (6), John Joseph (2), Emily L (7mths). 1911 - Sees 18 years old single 'Military Man' Thomas serving with the 2nd Battaltion Sherwood Forester and based at Crownhill Barracks, Crownhill, RSO, Devon.
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=23]Remembered on the Tolver Street Presbyterian War Memorial[/url] Note age discrepancy between census and age at death given on CWGC.
[url=lmem.php?lmem=23]Remembered on the Tolver Street Presbyterian War Memorial[/url] Note age discrepancy between census and age at death given on CWGC.
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/11492ThomasHenryBrogden.jpg[/pic][caption]Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929[/caption]
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[caption]Newspaper clipping from the local paper
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[pic]imgs/WW1_memorials/TBrogden_NandD.jpg[/pic][caption]The inscription for Serjeant thomas Henry Brogden on the Le Touret Memorial
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[caption]Thomas is remembered on the [url=lmem.php?lmem=10]Lowe House Memorial[/url][/caption]
