Year of birth: 1897

Place of birth: Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia

Profession: Salesman

Country: Australia

Force: Australian Imperial Force

Rank: Lance Corporal

Service number: 2781B

Enlistment date: 02/11/1916

Enlistment place: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Units:  —  Australian Infantry, 37th Bn.  (Last known unit)

Date of death: 12/10/1917

Place of death: Haalen Copse, Belgium

Cause of death: Killed in action (K.I.A.)

Age: 20

British War Medal Medal

Victory Medal Medal

Lance Corporal Broadway Horace George of the 37th Battalion Australian Infantry (10the Australian Brigade, 3rd Australian Division) was Killed In Action on the 12th of October 1917 near Haalen Copse, southwest of Crest Farm. Lance Corporal Broadway was in charge of a Machine Gun section in A company. At 5.25am on the first day of first battle of Passchendaele the 3th Australian Division advanced towards the German positions. The 10th Australian Brigade with the 37th Battalion A.I.F. left their positions south of the Ravebeek in front of Augustus Wood. The 37th, 38th and 40th Battalion of the 10th Brigade came under fire from Augustus Wood and the Waterfields. The going was extremely heavy with the battalion suffering heavy casualties from machine gun fire and artillery. Most of the Officers and NCO’s had become casualties but this did not deter the men from pushing on towards their objective which they reached at 7 AM. Under intense shelling and machine gun fire the battalion dug in and consolidated their position. It was during this “push” from Augustus Wood to the edge of Haalen Copse that Horace George Broadway was to lose his life.

37th Infantry Battalion, (Australian War Memorial, Campbell (AWM), AWM4 23/54). https://www.awm.gov.au/ Sources used

First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920 (National Archives of Australia, Canberra (NAA), B2455). http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au Sources used

Unit embarkation nominal rolls, 1914-18 War (Australian War Memorial, Campbell (AWM), AWM8). https://www.awm.gov.au Sources used

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1597915

Namenlijst (In Flanders Fields Museum) https://namenlijst.org/publicsearch/#/person/_id=2118be47-0f74-450f-a663-8ab4bdd41d84

Lives of the First World War (Imperial War Museum) https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/7370972

The AIF Project (UNSW Canberra) https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=33058