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Major Cuthbert Bromley VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Bromley was born on 19 September 1878 in Hammersmith to John Bromley and Marie Louisa Bromley. John Bromley was made a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath 3rd Class on 24 June 1904, moving to Sutton Corner Seaford East Sussex, shortly thereafter. Seaford, East Sussex.
Cuthbert was 36 years old, and was a Captain and regimental Adjuant in the 1st Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers, British Army during the First World War, and was awarded the VC for his actions on 25 April 1915, during the landings at W Beach, Gallipoli, Turkey, and during which he was wounded three times.
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