Lindsay Reginald BROADBENT [3175]

  General Notes:

1890 SA Birth BROADBENT Lindsay Reginald, Arthur BROADBENTFanny DREW Morphett Vale 469/155

Advertiser BROADBENT Lindsay Reginald 1975 (d. 25 Nov - Pub 27 Nov 1975)

First World War Embarkation Roll
Service number: 3033
Rank: Private
Roll title: 27 Infantry Battalion - 1 to 8 Reinforcements (May 1915 - January 1916)
Conflict/Operation: First World War, 1914-1918
Date of Embarkation: 12 January 1916
Place of embarkation: Adelaide
Ship Embarked On: HMAT Medic A7
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/R1926976/

  Research Notes:

Blackwood Soldiers Project
A project aimed at collecting and publishing the personal stories of sailors, soldiers and nurses from Blackwood, South Australia and surrounding district (Coromandel Valley, Upper Sturt, Cherry Gardens, Eden Hills and Belair) from their service in the First World War. Lest we forget.

28 MARCH 2010
The Broadbent clan of Cherry Gardens
Just finished doing the basic research on the six Broadbent boys from Cherry Gardens. They appear to have all been brothers or cousins:

Private Albert George Broadbent, 5th Pioneer Battalion: killed in action at Bullecourt, France 10 May 1917. Brother of Marshall Broadbent below.

Private Ralph Leslie Broadbent, 43rd Battalion, killed in action near Messines, Belgium 31 July 1917

Sapper Marshall Broadbent, 3rd Tunnelling Company, survived the war but died in an explosives accident at the Golden Horseshoe mine near Kalgoorlie, WA in 1940. Brother of Albert George Broadbent above.

Private Leland Keith Broadbent, 48th Battalion, survived the war and died aged 82 in 1980. Brother of Lindsay (Reg) Broadbent and Rowland Broadbent below.

Private Lindsay Reginald Broadbent, 32nd Battalion, wounded twice, lost one or both legs as a result, survived the war, died aged 85 in 1975. Brother of Leland Keith Broadbent above, and Rowland Broadbent below.

Corporal Rowland Broadbent, 11th Field Ambulance, gassed, survived war, Methodist clergyman, died in 1947 aged approximately 66. Brother of Leland Keith and Lindsay Reginald Broadbent above.

There is also Sapper Harry Franklin Broadbent, MM of the 2nd Divisional Signals Company who survived the war but apparently took his own life a few years later. Harry was a brother of Marshall and Albert George Broadbent above, but I can't find a link with Cherry Gardens for him.

I will be writing to the 'Cherry Chatter' team at Cherry Gardens to see if there is any more they can add.
https://blackwoodsoldiersproject.blogspot.co.nz/search/label/Lindsay%20Reginald%20Broadbent

Lindsay married Dolina MACLEOD [12246] [MRIN: 4546], daughter of Hugh MACLEOD [12247] and Unknown, on 26 Oct 1929 in Gartrell Memorial Church, Rose Park, Adelaide. (Dolina MACLEOD [12246] was born circa 1896.)

  Marriage Notes:

1929 SA Marriage 321/279 ROADBENT Lindsay Reginald MACLEOD Dolina, Norwood