Broadway Ordnance Survey reference: SP 095374 War Memorial

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A stone cross on a hexagonal base in the village centre. The memorial, like many in this area, was designed by F.L. Griggs of Chipping Campden. When I was transcribing this at the beginning of November 1998, the memorial, like many others throughout the country, was being renovated to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Great War. This picture was scanned from a postcard published between the wars by S.E.Fox, the local chemist in Broadway

Robert Warner Clarke Brian Cross Peter Cotterell Horace Ingles Sydney James Edward Milman Owen Edgar William Proctor

1939 - 1945 Sydney Clarke Frederick Cross Frederick Handy Raymond Ingles Anthony Jessop David Pemberton Frederick Tarrant

Robert Cook Maurice Cotterell Kenneth Harrison Cyril Invine James Newbury James Poole John Woodger

St. Eadburgha's, Broadway

This church is a little way out of the village, on the road leading to Snowshill.
A stone tablet on an interior wall:

In loving memory of Colonel Oswald Swift Flower, Royal Welch Fusiliers Third son of Edgar and Isabella Flower Served with distinction in the Chinese expedition 1900 He died leading his men at the taking of Mametz Wood, France, in the European War, July 11th 1916 Mentioned many times in dispatches "Being dead yet Speaketh "Faithful unto death"

A brass plaque:

In loving memory of Richard Fordham Flower Lieutenant Warwickshire Imperial Yeomanry second son of Edgar and Isabella Flower Killed in action at Haman's Kraal, South Africa August 20th 1900 "Faithful unto death"

A grave in the churchyard:

1583124 FLIGHT SERGEANT S.J. JAMES WIRELESS OPERATOR/AIR GUNNER ROYAL AIR FORCE 15TH JANUARY 1945 AGE 20 AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER HIM

Broadway cemetery

Continuing further along the road to Snowshill, there is a small cemetery.
Three war graves. All are listed on the 1939-45 memorial in Broadway:

11416496 L CPL S.R. CLARKE THE YORK & LANCASTER REGT. 1ST APRIL 1946 AGE 24 ON EARTH HE TOILED IN HEAVEN HE RESTS	1206953 AIRCRAFTSMAN 1ST CL. C.J. INVINE ROYAL AIR FORCE 4TH MAY 1943 AGE 33 HE HAS GONE OH, HOW WE MISS HIM BUT WE HOPE TO MEET HIM IN GOD'S MANSION
SQUADRON LEADER DAVID ALWYNE PEMBERTON, DFC PILOT ROYAL AIR FORCE 3RD NOVEMBER 1940 AGE 28 A HERO OF "THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN"

Broadway Tower

At the top of Broadway hill, about a hundred yards south of the tower, a memorial was unveiled on 2nd June 2000 on the spot where Whitley Z6639 from Honeybourne airfield flew in poor visibility into the hillside. Four crew were killed instantly, the fifth dying later. Detailed accounts can be found in Worcestershire at War by Glyn Warren, and Brian Kedward's Angry Skies across the Vale (see Links). Glyn Warren's account lists the accident as happening on the 6th June (date of newspaper report??)
A report of the unveiling of the memorial can be found in the Evesham Journal for 8th June 2000
Flight Sergeants Hagen and Kelly are buried at Evesham Waterside cemetery
The memorial is a bronze plaque on a triangular wedge of Cotswold stone: the plaque reads:

R.A.F. BOMBER CRASH AT THIS LOCATION ON THE 2ND JUNE 1943, 14.15 HRS A.W. WHITLEY Z6639, OF NO. 24 O.T.U. R.A.F. HONEYBOURNE, WORCS. CRASHED WHILE ON OPERATIONAL TRAINING IN MEMORY OF:-     FLT/SGT H.G. HAGEN     PILOT R.C.A.R.     SGT. R.S.PHILLIPS         NAV R.A.F.     FLT/SGT D.H. KELLY     B.A. R.C.A.R.     SGT. D.A. MARRIOTT     W.A.G. R.A.F. (V.R.)     SGT G.E. EKINS A.G.        R.A.F. (V.R.) WE WILL REMEMBER THEM