Sergeant John Cresswell BROADBENT (TT/015)
Army Veterinary Corps

Date of birth: 7th December 1892
Date of death: 18th October 1941

Survived aged 48
Unknown
John Cresswell Broadbent was born at Rastrick in Yorkshire on the 7th of December 1892 the only son of John Cooper Broadbent JP, a woolen merchant, and Fannie (nee Cresswell) Broadbent of Lacelles Hall near Huddersfield.

He was educated at Hazelwood School until July 1906 where he was a member of the Cricket XI in 1906. The school magazine wrote the following on his season that year: - "A most praiseworthy man in the field with a good return, and one of the very few safe pairs of hands in the XI."

On leaving the school the magazine wrote of him: - ".....also goes to Eton. He has had unusual difficulties to contend with in the matter of health before he came here, but is now growing strong and making up rapidly for lost time."

He went on to Eton College where he was in Mr. R.P.L. Booker’s House from September 1906 to July 1908. On leaving school he went into farming.

During the Great War he enlisted in the Army Veterinary Corps where he rose to the rank of Sergeant. He embarked for overseas service on the 11th of April 1915 and served in the Balkans, Egypt and Palestine.

He was married at Killadeas in Ireland to Marjorie Matilda (nee Irvine) on the 22nd of August 1923 and they lived at The Paddock, Stoke Prior, Leominster where he was a farmer and horse dealer. During the Second World War he served as a Special Constable and as an ARP Warden.

He died at Burghill in Herefordshire.
Went on to Eton College

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