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John Raymond Broadbent (Quartermaster General)

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Name
  
John Broadbent

Role
  
Quartermaster-General

Died
  
February 28, 1972


John Raymond Broadbent (Quartermaster-General)

Brigadier John Raymond Broadbent CBE (18 February 1893 (1893-02-18) – 28 February 1972 (1972-02-29) (aged 79)) was an Australian Army officer in World War II.

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Early life

Broadbent, Service Number: NX34728 (N8), was born in Ballarat, Victoria and enlisted in Sydney on 14 June 1940.

Service history

Broadbent held numerous posts during the war, while also acting as a Temporary Brigadier and was Mentioned in Dispatches in 1945. He held the following posts:

  • 1940 - Commanding Officer 7th Light Horse
  • 1940 - General Staff Officer 1 1st Australian Cavalry Division
  • 1940-1941 - Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General 8th Australian Infantry Division [Malaya]
  • 1942 - Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster-General New Guinea Force
  • 1942-1943 - Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster-General I Australian Corps [New Guinea]
  • 1943-1944 - Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster-General II Australian Corps
  • 1944-1945 - Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster-General I Australian Corps

    • Honours and awards

  • Commander of the Order of the British Empire: Recommendation; Awarded (London Gazette, 28 May 1943, Pg 2373, posn 4)
  • Mention in Dispatches: Recommendation; Awarded (London Gazette, 8 March 1945, Pg 1305, posn 19)
  • Note also: WWI

    • References

    John Raymond Broadbent (Quartermaster-General) Wikipedia
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