Casterton

25805 Lance Corporal Harold Hardacre, 1st Border Regiment. Died 9th December 1916, aged 23. Son of William Fryers Hardacre and Martha Hardacre, of Casterton Post Office.



This photo appeared in the Westmorland Gazette, 6 January 1917.
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Lieutenant Wilfred Stuart Stidston-Broadbent, 153rd Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). Killed in action on 19th April 1917, aged 28. Son of Conway Stidston-Broadbent and Elizabeth Stidston-Broadbent, of Casterton.

STIDSTON-BROADBENT, Lieut. W. S. Official news has been received of the loss of Lieut. Wilfrid Stuart Stidston-Broadbent, second in command of the ____ Machine Gun Company, in France, on the 19th of last month. Wilfrid Broadbent was the youngest son of Mr. C. Stidston-Broadbent, of Casterton, formerly of Windermere. He went out more than two years ago as a Petty Officer, R.N. (Motor-Maxim Company) to Gallipoli. He was at the start of the campaign and went through nearly the whole of it. He was sent to Egypt for a rest and then sent with his Gun Company against the Senussi tribe. Immediately afterwards he was transferred to the Army and given a commission in the Machine Gun Corps, 11th Division. He accompanied that Division to France a few months ago. Two months ago he was promoted to First Lieut. and given the second in command of the 153rd M.G. Corps attached to a Scottish Division. He was through the recent advance from its start, and was killed by shell while moving up to advanced headquarters with his company.

(Westmorland Gazette, 5 May 1917)