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| Additional Information: | Son of Richard and Mary Arm Broadfield; husband of Sophia Tudno Broadfield, of Birkenhead. |
| Memorial: | ALAMEIN MEMORIAL, Egypt |
| Grave
Reference/ Panel Number: |
Column 44. |
| Location: | The Alamein Memorial
forms the entrance to the El Alamein War Cemetery. Alamein is a village,
bypassed by the main coast road, approximately 130 kilometres west of
Alexandria on the road to Mersa Matruh. The first Commission road
direction sign is located just beyond the Alamein police checkpoint and
all cemetery visitors should turn off from the main road onto the
parallel old coast road. The cemetery lies off the road beyond the
ridge, and road direction signs are in place approximately 25 metres
before the low metal gates and stone wing walls which are situated
centrally at the road edge at the head of the access path into the
cemetery. The Cross of Sacrifice feature may be seen from the road. The
Alamein Memorial Land Forces panels commemorate the soldiers of the
British Commonwealth and Empire who fell in the campaigns in Egypt and
Libya, and in the operations of the Eighth Army in Tunisia up to 19th
February 1943, who have no known grave. It also commemorates those who
served and fell in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Persia. The Alamein Memorial
Air Forces panels commemorate the airmen of the Commonwealth who fell in
the campaigns in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Greece, Crete and
the Aegean, Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Somalilands, the Sudan, East
Africa, Aden and Madagascar, who have no known grave. Those who served
with the Rhodesian and South African Air Training Scheme and have no
known grave are also honoured here. Also within El Alamein War Cemetery,
in the south-eastern part, will be found the Alamein Cremation Memorial. |
| Historical Information: | The Alamein Memorial commemorates 11868, 1939-1945 war casualties. |