Name
Harry Bromley
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/08/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
36259
Princess Charlotte of Wale's (Royal Berkshire) Regiment.
1st/4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 105 to 106.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, St Clemence Church Memorial, Turnford, Rochford Nurseries Memorial, St. Clements Church Memorial, Turnford, Not on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial All Saints Church Hertford
Pre War
Harry Bromley was born in East Barnet / New Barnet, Hertfordshire, in 1895, son of Joseph Bromley a Nursery Garden Foreman and Susan Bromley (nee Wheadon). The youngest of three children.
He was Baptised on the 29th December 1895 in Brenchley, Kent, his father’s home town.
1901 Census records Harry aged 6, living with his Parents, sisters Ethal (9), and May (8) in Ox Lane, Harpenden, Herts,
1911 Census. Harry had left school and was working as a Nursery Hand, living with his parents at New River House, Turnford, Herts.
Wartime Service
Harry travelled to the County Town of Hertford and enlisted in the Hertfordshire Regiment with the service number 5956, later transferred to the Princes Charlotte of Wales (Royal Berkshire) Regiment, with the service number 36259.
Harry was Killed in Action on the 27th August 1917, aged 22, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
Additional Information
His mother Susan Bromley of New River Nursery, Turnford, Herts, received a dependents pension of 3/6 a week from the 12th March 1918. His effects of £4-12s-00d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £8, went to his father Joseph Bromley.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
