John Raymond Broadbent (Quartermaster-General)

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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.

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

He was a Temporary Brigadier and Mentioned in Dispatches in 1945.

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

See also

List of Australian generals and brigadiers

External links