Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Major J. E. M. Bromley, D.S.O., Royal Field Artillery, killed in action in France in June 1918
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2558 Tpr., Natal Police); British War and Victory Medals (Major), second with official correction to rank; together with a related British War Medal 1914-20 (A.A.112 J. Bromley, A.B., R.N.V.R.) good very fine (4) £300-400

D.S.O. London Gazette 18 January 1918, details 24 April 1918. ‘Temporary Capt. (Acting Major), Royal Field Artillery’ ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He assisted in getting wounded out of a dug-out which had been blown in, under intense shell fire, and helped them to the dressing station. When an ammunition dump was set on fire, he put it out under heavy shell fire. When a dugout, containing 15 men, was blown in, though himself wounded, he worked for an hour and a half rescuing them under intense shelling. He showed splendid courage and coolness’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 21 May 1918.

John Edouard Marsden Bromley was born on 21 March 1883. He served in the Boer War with the Natal Police and also in the Natal Rebellion of 1906. At the start of the Great War, he was a Native Commissioner serving with the British South Africa Police in Northern Rhodesia. He was appointed a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant in November 1914 and a Temporary Captain in May 1915 and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 21 December 1915. He attained the rank of Acting Major in February 1917 and joined the 17th Battery 41st Brigade R.F.A. in March 1917 and was wounded on 19 November 1917. Major Bromley was killed in action on 7 June 1918, aged 36 years. The son of John and Rebecca Bromley of 30 Manchester Street, London, W.1. He was buried in the Anzin-St. Aubin British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. Sold with copied service papers.