Name
Hugh Broughton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/08/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/25947
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
Plot XXV, Row B, Grave 26.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
St Matthew’s Church Memorial, Oxhey
Pre War
Hugh Broughton was born in 1899 in Bushey, Herts, the son of Hugh Bertram Broughton the Manager of a coal merchants and Sarah Kate Broughton (nee Potts).
His parents married 25 September 1894 at St James’, Bushey, Herts. Hugh died 25 August 1902 in Bushey aged 32, and was buried 28 August at St James’, Bushey; Sarah died 2 December 1918 in South Kensington, London, aged 49, and was buried 7 December, also at St James’. There is a Death announcement for Sarah in the Observer dated 7 December 1918.
Hugh was born 1899 in Oxhey, Herts, and baptised 1 June 1899 at St James, Bushey.
1901 Census records Hugh aged 1 living with his parents, at 48, Villiers Road, New Bushey, Herts, also living with the family are his aunt and Uncle, Laura & Alfred Broughton. Alfred is recorded as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers.
On the 1911 Census, a scholar aged 11, he a boarder at a Boarding School in Watford, Herts.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford, and was formerly Private 38248 Royal Warwickshire Regiment. later transferring to the (The Queens) Royal West Surrey Regiment, with the service No. G/25947.
He was killed in action on 13 August 1918, aged 19. He is remembered with honour at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Belgium and is commemorated on the St Matthew’s Church Memorial.
He was entitled to the Victory and British War.
Additional Information
There is a Death announcement for Hugh in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 24 August 1918.
The value of his effects were £9-18s-5d, Pay Owing which went to his mother and £4-10s-0d, War Gratuity which went to administration by Anne E Potts (possibly his mothers sister).
Unfortunately, Hugh’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne,
Dianne Payne - ‘Bushey during the Great War. A Village Remembers’ – Bushey Museum & Art Gallery, Jonty Wild, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
