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Major CHARLES VERE BROKE

Service Number: 89344
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

147 (The Essex Yeomanry) Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 06 August 1944

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY

V. A. 11.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Lt.-Col. Harry Broke and Isabel Lucy Broke, of Alresford, Hampshire; husband of Rosemary Broke.
  • Personal Inscription KILLED IN ACTION RESCUING HIS MEN FROM A BURNING TRUCK "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN"
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Buried or commemorated at

BROUAY WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 377
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