Family :

Education & Career :

Merchant Taylors' School, Great Crosby

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

9 April - 29 April 1918. As the first phase of the great German campaign of 1918 lost momentum and failed in its objective to split the British and French armies, subsidiary attacks were shift the balance of the attack and to seek opportunities to exploit other sectors. On the Lys the Germans initially enjoyed spectacular success against a Portuguese Division but the gap was soon plugged and the advance halted.

Detail :

Entry exists in the Scottish and the England/Wales National Probate Index: BRODBELT, Arthur Dell, of Mill Bank, Moor Park, Great Crosby, near Liverpool, Lieut., R.G.A., died 18 April 1918, in France, testate. Certificate endorsed by Commissary Clerk of Edinburgh, 30 September, on Probate of the Will, granted at London, 20 July 1918, to Lucy Brodbelt, widow, the mother, the sole Executrix. Value of Estate, £2747. 10s. 9d.

Both Arthur and his brother Guy are commemorated in Tattenhall: http://www.tattenhallhistory.co.uk/individual-casualties-ww1/ with further local research by Terri Hull.

Masonic :

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley