BROAD, Harry Orlando
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
7 Commando
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps:
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Service:
Army
Number:
5435324
P.O.W. number:
95853
P.O.W. camps:
Born:
Tuesday, August 27, 1912
Died :
Monday, February 10, 1969
Age:
56
Harry Broad, a Labourer and Pipe Layer from Devonport, Plymouth, enlisted 11 July 1930. Private Broad volunteered for the Commandos in WW2 and was attached to No.7 Commando embarking for the Middle East as part of 'A' Battalion Layforce. He was reported missing during operations at Crete, later found to have been captured on 1 June 1941 and a prisoner of war.
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/28, WO417/34, and WO417/94.
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/1 and WO392/11.
Directorate of Mil. Int. WW2 Liberated POW Questionnaires / National Archives file WO344/41/1.
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