| Surname: | Broadhurst |
| Initials: | W J |
| Rank: | Sergeant |
| Army Number: | 415 |
| Notes: | MMP. Formerly 9 Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, transferred to MMP 16/3/1897. Info from Army Record: Enlisted 8/9/1914, age 43 years. He was born in Birmingham and was formerly a Commissionaire. Previously served in the Royal Artillery, No. 75272, and Military Mounted Police, discharged 1910. Served Home 14/10/1889 to 1/12/1890, India 2/12/1890 to 4/11/1895, Home 5/11/1895 to 22/10/1899, South Africa 23/10/1899 to 11/11/1902, Home 12/11/1902 to 16/11/1904, Egypt 17/11/1904 to 11/3/1909, Home 12/3/1909 to 13/10/1910 to discharge, home address: 39 Throgmorton Street, London EC. Served Home 8/9/1914 to 17/3/1915. BEF 18/3/1915 to 2/9/1915. Home 3/9/1915 to 2/10/1918. Suffered a Gun Shot Wound hip 24/8/1915. 2/10/1918 Discharged no longer physically fit for War Service. Awards: 1915 Star, Victory and War Medal and Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, Army Order 77 of 1908. Served in the Boer War. First served abroad, (3) Egypt, 18/3/1915. 2/10/18 medically discharged.13/10/39 he died at Hammersmith Hospital, London. Home address: 43 Davenport Road, Hammersmith, shown as retired Commissionaire for a Petrol Company. Info from Pension Index Card:- Broadhurst, William Joseph, MMP, 415, 75272, 11/M/149526, 43 Devonport Road, Shepherds Bush, London. William Joseph Broadhurst. He has the same No. as Pte. A Bowes, MFP. Extract from the Aldershot News 26 July 1907. POACHING ON GOVERNMENT GROUND. Albert Thomas Johnson, Thomas Cheers, and Edward Rees were charged with day poaching on 18th July, at Farnborough. All denied the charge. Sergeant W. J. Broadhurst, Military Mounted Police, at 10 a.m. on 18th, at Puckridge Hill, saw defendants with a dog coming across Laffan's Plain, Their pockets appeared bulky and two of them went to arrest the defendants, who made off. Johnson used bad language. Lees had several nets in his possession. while Johnson escaped. He never saw the men doing anything in the camp. The other men had rabbits. Corporal Millikin, Military Mounted Police corroborated. he saw the men on the north side of the canal. near Farnborough Road, coming towards Aldershot from Fleet direction. Cheers had eight small and four large rabbits on him. Two of them were alive. Witness: We have to arrest the men to get their names at the station. Mr Robertson; You have no right to do so, and you do it at your own risk. Johnson admitted poaching but not on Government ground. He was not on government ground but by the canal bank. They were poaching at Ewshott. The Bench after consultation convicted the defendants. Nothing was known of the men, who were fined 10-6d each or 14 days hard labour. |
Decoration Record: | |
| Decoration: | Military Medal (London Gazette: 29819 Page: 10919 Nov. 11, 1916) |
| Citation: | France & Flanders. Attached HQ 27 Brigade, 29 Division. Number shown as P/415 in this LG. |
| Decoration: | Queen's South Africa Medal (London Gazette: QSA Medal Roll WO 100/234 Page: 188 July 5, 1901) |
| Citation: | Clasps: Transvaal, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing's Nek. Awarded additional Clasp: Cape Colony, QSA Medal Roll WO 100/234, page 197, 14/4/1903. |
| Decoration: | King's South Africa Medal (London Gazette: KSA Medal Roll WO 100/355 Page: 197 Dec. 23, 1902) |
| Citation: | Clasps; South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902. |
| Decoration: | Silver War Badge (London Gazette: WO 329/3243 Page: List MPC/89 Nov. 8, 1918) |
| Citation: | Badge no. B36907. Enlisted 18/9/1914, Discharge 2/10/1918. KR 392 (xvi) AO VI Sep/1918. Age 48years 0months. Served abroad. |