Whitby High School
Battlefields Tour 18-21st March 2006
Belgium - Ypres and Salient Tour - Sunday 19th March
Private William Broughton

9th Battalion Cheshire Regiment
Died 2nd October 1917, Aged 37.


Oxford Road Cemetery, Near Ypres, West Vlaanderen, Belgium

Private Broughton lies in Section III, plot E.19.

Oxford Road is marked No.1 near Wieltje (centre, top).

The cemetery is located to the North East of the town of Ieper. Oxford Road was the name given to a road running behind the support trenches, from a point west of the village of Wieltje south-eastwards to the Potijze-Zonnebeke road. Plot 1 is the original Oxford Road Cemetery and was used by the units fighting on this front from August 1917 to April 1918. In October 1917, another cemetery, known as Oxford Road Cemetery No. 2, was started close by and now forms Plot V of the cemetery as it appears today. After the Armistice, Plots II, III and IV were added when scattered graves from the battlefields east and south-east of Ypres (now Ieper) were brought into the cemetery. There are now 851 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 297 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials commemorate three casualties known to have been buried in the cemetery but whose graves could not be located. The cemetery was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

Casualty Details
Name: BROUGHTON, WILLIAM
Initials: W
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Cheshire Regiment
Unit Text: 9th Bn.
Date of Death: 02/10/1917
Service No: 49838
Additional information: Husband of Martha Broughton, of 14, Princes Rd., Ellesmere Port, Birkenhead.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: III. E. 19.
Cemetery: OXFORD ROAD CEMETERY

Certificate

In Memory of
Private WILLIAM BROUGHTON

49838, 9th Bn., Cheshire Regiment
who died
on 02 October 1917
Husband of Martha Broughton, of 14, Princes Rd., Ellesmere Port, Birkenhead.

Remembered with honour
OXFORD ROAD CEMETERY

Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission



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