Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookll circumstances, and he led his platoon splendidly." The officer commanding his company at the time said: "To me it seems impossible that such a catastrophe could have happened to the most wonderful nature I have ever met. His death has left all of us that remain in the battn. simply stupefied.... You will remember that he took his platoon over that machine gun and rifle swept ground, losing half his platoon, and when they arrived at the German trench the remnants laid down under the German parapet, while Bob knelt up and fired from two to three dozen shots at Germans who were firing at our troops advancing further to the left. There seems no doubt at all that he accounted for some dozen and a-half of them, until one of them spotted him and hit him behind the left ear.... Only 18 men out of 53 now remain of his platoon ... more than one gulped down a lump when reminded of their beloved officer and friend. They just loved the old lad. I have never known any person so universally admired and loved as he was by everyone"; adding: "his advance greatly helped to cause the whole German line to retire." A private wrote: "I feel sure that I am expressing not only my own thoughts but those of my comrades of the platoon which has had the honour of serving under the leadership of so brave a gentleman as the late Lieut. Bristowe. It is hardly necessary for me to add that his loss is most keenly felt by us all." The platoon sergt. wrote: "I trust you can now realise how bravely and fearlessly our gallant leader met his death, not caring about himself as long as he could make the attack successful." His cousin, Private Stanley Bristowe, died on active service 18 June, 1915 (see following notice). [Illustration: =Robert Owen Bristowe.=] =BRISTOWE, STANLEY=, Private, No. 2063, Hon. Artillery Company, eldest _s._ of Percy Robert Bristowe, of Roundwood, Hutton, Essex, member of the London Stock Exchange, by his wife, Elizabeth Frances Mary, dau. of Henry Edward Milner (late of) Woodlawn, Kingswood Road, Norwood, and grandson of Robert Henry Bristowe, of Wavertree, Sydenham Hill, S.E.; _b._ Waverley, Bromley, Kent, 29 May, 1893; educ. Charterhouse; joined the Hon. Artillery Company in Sept. 1914, and died in hospital, St. Omer, France, of illness contracted while on active service in France, 18 June, 1915. He was buried in the Souvenir Cemetery, St. Omer; _unm._ His cousin-german, Lieut. R. O. Bristowe, was killed in action 14 March, 1915 (see preceding notice). [Illustration: =Stanley Bristowe.=] =BRITT, ALBERT HENRY=, Private, No. 3245, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards; enlisted 16 Jan. 1900; served in South Africa, 7 Nov. 1901 to 4 Oct. 1902 (Queen's medal with three clasps), and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, 11 Sept. to 29 Oct. 1914; was reported missing on the latter date, and is now assumed to have been killed in action 29 Oct. to 2 Nov. 1914. He _m._ Rose (1, The Row, Elmdon Heath, Salihill, Birmingham) and had six children. =BROAD, EDWARD=, Stoker, Petty Officer, 281620, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =BROAD, GEORGE ALFRED=, Private, No. 7751, 2nd Battn. East Kent Regt. (The Buffs); served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 18 Oct. 1914; _m._ =BROAD, WALTER=, Sergt. Shoemaker, No. 5641, 3rd Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of George Broad, of North Evington, Leicester; _b._ Leicester, 3 Jan. 1883; educ. there; served with the 3rd Battn. Leicester Regt. in the South African War (Queen's medal with two clasps "Cape Colony," "South Africa, 1902"); enlisted in the Coldstream Guards, 8 Aug. 1904; became L.-Corpl. 3 Oct. 1905; Corpl. 5 Jan. 1909; Sergt. and Sergt. Shoemaker 26 July, 1913; served in Egypt 29 Sept. 1906, to 20 Oct. 1908, and with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 12 Aug. 1914, and was killed in action at the Battle of Mons, 16 Sept. 1914. He _m._ at St. Peter's Church, Mount Sorrell,--Aug. 1910, Nellie (170, Main Street, Mount Sorrell, Leicestershire), dau. of Harry Rudkin, of 170, Main Street, Mount Sorrell, and had two children: Walter, _b._ 29 Oct. 1914; and May, _b._ 2 May, 1912. [Illustration: =Walter Broad.=] =BROADHURST, JOSEPH HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 6723), S.S. 101291, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =BROADRICK, JAMES GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 4540), 282164, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BROADWAY, HUGH ALEXANDER=, Lieut., R.E., eldest _s._ of Alexander Broadway, Magistrate and Landowner in the Punjab, India, by his wife, Lizzie Welford, dau. of Kinsey Beaumont Thomas, of Upton, co. Worcester; _b._ Mussoorie, India, 23 June, 1891; educ. Watson's College, Edinburgh, and Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; obtained his commission, 25 July, 1912. On the conclusion of the usual two years' course at the S.M.E., he volunteered for India, and was sent to Gosport in July, 1914, for an electric lighting course prior to embarkation. On the outbreak of war, Broadway was at first employed in hutting the troops for coast defence, and then on some miscellaneous work at Netley Hospital and in the Southampton district, to his great and natural disappointment. But it was not for long, and in Nov. he was ordered to report at Chatham for service in a field company to be sent to the front, where he afterwards served in the 15th Field Coy. under Major P. K. Betty, R.E., to which he appears to have been transferred at the front. Here Broadway was specially commended for good work in design and execution of defences in an important position, christened "Port Arthur," and specially commended for the excellent and gallant work carried out by himself and his section of the 15th Coy. R.E. by the Brig.-Gen. commanding the 24th Infantry Brigade, through the Headquarters of the 8th Division in March, 1915. The 10 March saw Broadway preparing the defences of a post captured outside Neuve Chapelle, and in the afternoon of that day he was bending down in an exposed position to bandage one of his sappers who had been shot when he was himself hit in the shoulder, and the bullet injured his spine. He was immediately carried to the dressing station and sent out to the base hospital, but eventually died there on 30 March. Hugh Broadway was specially fond of Rugby football among games, was a keen soldier, and very popular with his fellows, and put all his energy into the subject in hand. Many letters testify similarly to that of the Major commanding his company, who wrote: "Your son, during the short time he was in the company, endeared himself to us all, and worked hard at whatever he undertook," and his all too brief career was crowned by his posthumous mention in F.M. Sir John French's Despatch of 31 May, 1915, "for gallant and distinguished service in the field." [Illustration: =Hugh A. Broadway.=] =BROADWELL, THOMAS=, Private, No. 6675, 2nd Battn. East Yorkshire Regt., 2nd _s._ of Robert |