Private Leonard Broadhurst

Army Number: 27125

Battalion: 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Loughborough, Leicestershire. Son of William and Elizabeth Broadhurst. of 3 Court Street, Hyson Green, Nottingham. He was a painter prior to enlisting on 8th June 1915 at Nottingham. He was killed in action, 2nd August 1917, age 19, whilst serving in the trenches at Steenbeeke, Belgium. 

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium.

Private Leonard Broadhurst is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.