| Content Note | Includes: Handwritten letter from Miss Winifred M. Broom, cousin of the casualty, to the CWGC Secretary requesting information about the location of Sergeant Broom’s grave or the memorial on which his name was recorded, dated 15 November 1961; handwritten letter from Miss Winifred M. Broom to the CWGC Director-General enquiring why Sergeant Broom’s mother was provided with a grave number stating that he was buried at Courcelette, though the grave was never located, dated 4 December 1961; letter from M. Campbell, CWGC Director-General, to Miss W.M. Broom explaining that many of those killed during the Battles of the Somme were buried where they fell, and that many of those graves could not be identified after the war, dated 11 December 1961; letter from M. Campbell to Miss W.M. Broom explaining that the photograph she received of Sergeant Broom’s name on the memorial was actually the name of Private C.S. Broom, and that the Commission contacted the British Legion for the provision of another photograph, dated 27 April 1962. |