birkenhead war memorial research

[kenmorrison]

As far as I can see there is a "locked" thread about research of the names on the Birkenhead War Memorial - is this research still on-going?

 

I have a man named on the SELKIRK Roll of Honour in the Scottish Borders as 

BROOMFIELD, JOHN P. PRIVATE, GLOUCESTERS, 1914-16.

and although this name is not on the Birkenhead WM, a transcript indicates that the name 

BROADFIELD, J. was added to the end of the first column of names.

 

Could it be the same man????

 

My man is 

John Paterson Broomfield – age 19 – Private (5916) 2/6^th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment.

In 1911 John was living with his family in Birkenhead, Cheshire where his father was a railway locomotive engine fitter. He enlisted as Private (2960) in the 4^th Cheshire Regiment but was posted to the 2/6^th Gloucesters who landed at Le Havre in May 1916. John was killed two months later. (Source: 1911 census, SDGW and Medal Roll/Card)

Born 1897 in Selkirk. Son of William and Agnes (Paterson) Broomfield of 36 Mallaby Street and of 29 Shamrock Road, Birkenhead who had married in 1895 in Selkirk. (

Source: Liverpool Echo 19/7/1917 p.4 and CWGC)

Missing in Action – 19 July 1916.

Commonwealth War Grave – Loos Memorial, France.

 

Ken

[IPT]

There's a Joseph Broadfield, Cheshire Regiment, named on the St Anne's, Birkenhead memorial - https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/name/345390

 

I can't immediately identify him though.

[kenmorrison]

Thanks for that IPT - sorry for the delay in replying but I was hoping that one of the researchers might have "popped-up" and could clarify my (and your) question.

Cheers

Ken

[Acknown]

As you have probably seen, the only J Broadfield on the CWCG roll came from Birmingham. I suspect that the two Broomfield entries are the same man. This would not be unusual. One RN officer I have researched is remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial, on a marble tablet on the wall of his (inland) Hampshire parish church, and his grandmother having moved to a West Sussex town in the 1890s, his name is also remembered in its church and on its War Memorial. 

Acknown

Edited 29 October , 2020 by Acknown

[IPT]

St Anne's, (now Christ the King), where 'Joseph Broadfield' is remembered, is about a ten minute walk from 27 Carrington Avenue, where John Broomfield was living in 1911, and 36 Mallaby Street is about the same.

 

Why Joseph Broadfield/John Broomfield though?

 

 

 

Edited 29 October , 2020 by IPT