William Gordon BROADBENT

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BROADBENT, William Gordon

Service Numbers:	Q195890, QX5214
Enlisted:	9 January 1940
Last Rank:	Lance Corporal
Last Unit:	2nd/7th Cavalry (Commando) Regiment
Born:	Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 30 April 1918
Home Town:	Glenmorgan, Western Downs, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Soldier
Died:	Killed in Action, Papua, 19 December 1942, aged 24 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea A7 D 10
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Greenslopes 2nd/7th Cavalry Regiment Honour Roll, Sandgate War Memorial, Tara Shire WW2 Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

9 Jan 1940:	Enlisted Q195890
27 May 1940:	Enlisted Private, QX5214, 2nd/7th Cavalry (Commando) Regiment
27 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Lance Corporal, QX5214
19 Dec 1942:	Involvement Lance Corporal, QX5214

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Herbert George and Maida Muriel Mackay Broadbent, of Glenmorgan, Queensland.

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