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Personal data

• Name BROOMFIELD
• Initials WW
• First name WALTER WILLIAM
• Place of birth Whitford
• Country Wales
• Last residence Plaisted, Whangarei
• Family Brother of T. R. Broomfield, of Whangarei, New Zealand.
• Profession Farmer

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Trentham, 2 May 1916
• Service number 21480
• Rank Lance Corporal
• Regiment and unit 2nd Bn. New Zealand Rifle Brigade
• Division - Brigade 3rd Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division New Zealand Division
• National force N.Z.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarked: 20 August 1916, Wellington
  Appointed Lance Corporal November 1917
  Marched out for France: November 1916

Death

• Wounded Wounded in action: 24 November 1917
• Type of wounds Died of wounds at n°2 Can CSS
• Date of death 28 November 1917
• Died at the age of 22
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVI - A - 17

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