In Affectionate Remembrance of Private WILLIAM BROUGHTON

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REMEMBERANCE DAY 2014
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In Affectionate Remembrance of
Private WILLIAM BROUGHTON
469665, 2nd Bn., Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
who died age 22
on Wednesday 6 September 1916.
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Private BROUGHTON, Son of Silvanus and Christena Broughton, of Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Died at the 18th General Hospital, France, on the 6th day of September, 1916, from wounds received at the Battle of Courcelette part of the battle of the Somme, in his the 22nd year. 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEX9ppGTe_0

Private William Broughton
Name: BROUGHTON, WILLIAM Initials: W
Nationality: Canadian, Rank: Private,
Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment), 
Unit: 2nd Bn.
Service No: 469665, Age: 22, Date of Death: 06/09/1916,
K.I.A. due to a Gunshot Wound to the Head, while in the
line during the Battle of Courcelette, on a pre-battle trench raid
then transported to No.18 Hospital Camiers France.
The term for this every day event of WW1 was called “Trench Wastage”
From Sunday, 28 June 1914 to Monday, 11 November 1918 = 1597 days
(both sides totals)
9.7 million military deaths = 6074 deaths per day.

Battle: Battle of Courcelette September 15th, 1916. http://pages.interlog.com/~fatjack/somme.htm
Courcelette, Battle of. This was an episode in the fighting in the Somme valley in France in the summer and autumn of 1916. On September 15, the Canadian Corps attacked the German trenches before the village of Courcelette, and before nightfall the village had been captured by the 22nd battalion (French Canadians of Montreal) and the 25th (Nova Scotians). The operation was notable as the first occasion on which the Canadians acted in conjunction with the newly-invented tanks. http://www.veterans.gc.ca/…/canadian-virtual-…/detail/496986
 
Additional information: Son of Silvanus and Christena Broughton, of Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Cemetery:
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais France
http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/ww1frenchcemeteries/etaples.htm
Grave or Reference Panel Number:
X. B. 19A.
Location:Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne France.
 
The Military Cemetery is just to the north of the town,
on the west side of the road to Boulogne France. Cemetery Historical Information: During the First World War, the area around Etaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern or the southern battlefields. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand dunes and the hospitals, which included eleven general, one stationary, four Red Cross hospitals and a convalescent depot, could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. convalescent depot remained. The cemetery contains 10,773 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, the earliest dating from May 1915 - 35 of these burials are unidentified. 
http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx…
http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx…
 
William Broughton name is written in the Canadian Book of Remembrance that is housed in Canada's Peace Tower.
Pte. William Broughton is on Page 59, #49 down on the left side. 

IN FLANDERS FIELDS By:
Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD (1872-1918) Canadian Army:

IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place;
and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead.
Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved,
and now we lie In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw the torch;
be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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At the going down of the sun
And in the morning
We will remember them...
May God give His grace to all!
Amen... 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZKzUbIjr30
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Remembered with honour by Canada
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
COMMEMORATED IN PERPETUITY BY
THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION

DEBT OF HONOUR REGISTER
In Memory of
WILLIAM BROUGHTON
Private
469665
2nd Bn., Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.)
who died on
Wednesday 6 September 1916 . Age 22 .
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Remembrance Day: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bycpk0A4_Po 
Christmas in the Trenches:  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHObCL2luMw 
The Maple Leaf Forever:  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg05TyR9CAo 
Remembrance Day Canada: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ7z_eANAP

THE 2nd BATTALION EASTERN ONTARIO REGIMENT 

 CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE 

The Canadian Expeditionary Force was created in response to the First World War. The battalion comprised local militia in many regions of Ontario (and even from Quebec City). Men came from as far away as Sault Ste. Marie, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island to join in Canada’s military endeavour. Local militia gathered at Valcartier, in August 1914 and became part of the 2nd Battalion.
 
The original officers were drawn from the various regiments that recruited for the battalion, including the Governor General's Foot Guards of Ottawa, the 16th Prince Edward Regiment, the 40th Northumberland Regiment, the 41st Brockville Rifles, also the 42nd Regiment,
Lanark and Renfrew among some others.
 
The battalion boarded the S.S. Cassandra from Quebec City on 22 September 1914, but sailed only as far as the Gaspé Basin, where more troops were collected. The battalion finally left the Gaspé Basin on 3 October as part of a convoy of at least 30 other ships, carrying a combined 32,000 Canadian soldiers, which would be the first of the Canadian infantry contributions to the war.
The S.S. Cassandra landed at Plymouth on 25 October 1914, where the battalion disembarked and began rigorous training for the European battlefield.
 
On 8 February 1915, the battalion was mobilized for war. They sailed out of England aboard the S.S. Blackwell, bound for France. The battalion’s first taste of battle came later that month, on 19 February, when they entered the trench system at Armentières.
 
Their first battle was the Second Battle of Ypres, in April 1915. When the battalion pulled out of the battle, on 29 April, the final count included 6 officers and 68 other ranks killed, 4 officers and 158 other ranks wounded, and 5 officers and 302 other ranks missing, for a combined loss of 543 men.
The 2nd Battalion also fought at the battles of Ypres, Battle of Courcelette, St. Julien, Festubert, Pozières, Vimy (1917), Arleux, Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, and Canal du Nord, to name only a few. By the end of the war, 242 officers and 5,084 other ranks had fought with the battalion. Of those, 52 officers and 1,227 other ranks were killed in action, accidentally killed, or died of their injuries.
 
At 8:30 on the morning of 24 April 1919, the 2nd Bn. Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regt.) C.E.F. was officially demobilized at Kingston, Ontario.
 

Posted in loving memory from William Broughton's great nephew, 

Richard Abbenbroek and Family

The Green Fields of France: 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa1nG4ezPQ0