John Du Vernet BROUGHTON

BROUGHTON, John Du Vernet

Service Number: 82722
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Flight Officer
Last Unit: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Born: 1908, place not yet discovered
Home Town: Edgecliff, Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Property Manager
Died: Killed In Action, Netherlands, 10 April 1941
Cemetery: Lemsterland (Lemmer) General Cemetery, Netherlands
C 10 262
Memorials: International Bomber Command Centre Memorial
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World War 2 Service

Date unknown: Involvement Royal Air Force , Flight Officer, 82722, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Herbert Henry and Ida Mary Broughton, of Edgecliffe, New South Wales

Vickers Wellington II W5375 PH-D

Airborne 2230 Shot down by a night-fighter (Oblt Egmont Prinz zur Lippe Weissenfeld, 4./NJG1) and crashed 0059 in the IJsselmeer. All bodies were recovered and taken for burial in various Dutch cemeteries.

Flying-Officer Missing
SYDNEY. Monday.-A few hours after his engagement was announced in Sydney newspapers on Friday, Flying Officer John Broughton (30) was reported missing. He was engaged to Miss Margaret  Burns, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Burns, of Bowral. He has not returned from R.A.A.F. operations on April 9 and 10.

ENGAGED R.A.F.
MAN MISSING
A few hours after his engagement was announced in Sydney newspapers on Friday, Flying-Officer John Broughton, 30, was reported missing. He was engaged to Miss Margaret Burns, only daughter of  Mr. and Mrs. James Burns, of Bowral. On Friday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Broughton, of Darling- Point, received a cable stating that their son was missing. He had not returned from certain RA.F.  operations on April 9 and 10.
Miss Burns has been in England since the outbreak of war, and holds a commissioned rank in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. Flying Officer Broughton arrived in England two days after war was  declared. He was managing a country property, when he told his parents he was going to England to enter the R.A.F. He left a "few days afterwards. He was the first Australian to join the R.A.F. after the outbreak of war.
Miss Burns and Flying - Officer Broughton had been friends for more than seven years. Mrs. Broughton said yesterday that she felt sure that good news of her son was on the way.

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