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| Additional Information: | Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Broadfield, of 52, Hartledon Rd., Harbourne, Birmingham; husband of Harriet Emily Broadfield, of 61, Back, Macdonald St., Birmingham. |
| Memorial: | TYNE COT MEMORIAL, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium |
| Grave
Reference/ Panel Number: |
Panel 23 to 28 and
163A |
| Location: | The Tyne Cot
Memorial to the Missing forms the north-eastern boundary of Tyne Cot
Cemetery, which is located 9 kilometres north east of Ieper town centre,
on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332). The
Memorial is a semicircular flint wall 4.25 metres high and over 150
metres long, faced with panels of Portland stone on which are carved
nearly 35,000 names of those who have no known grave. There are three
apses and two rotundas. The central apse forms the New Zealand Memorial
commemorating the names of nearly 1200 men who gave their lives in the
Battle of Broodseinde and the Third Battle of Ypres in October 1917; the
other two, as well as the rotundas and the wall itself, carry the names
of United Kingdom dead who fell in the Salient between 15 August 1917
and the Armistice, in the Third and Fourth Battles of Ypres. Two domed
arched pavilions mark the ends of the main wall, each dome being
surmounted by a winged female figure with head bowed over a wreath. The
following inscription is carved on the frieze above the panels which
contain the names: 1914 - HERE ARE RECORDED THE NAMES OF OFFICERS AND
MEN OF THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT, BUT
TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO
THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH - 1918 |