Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

15/09/1915

Date of Discharge

24/01/1918

Place of Enlistment

Goulburn NSW

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Ballarat, Victoria

Address (at enlistment)

Paddington NSW (previously Duntroon ACT)

Occupation

Painter

Next of Kin

Mary Ellen Bromley (wife), Paddington NSW

Service Number

1611

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

7 Light Horse Regiment AIF

Bromley was born in Ballarat in 1880 and was living in the Canberra area working as a painter when he enlisted on 15 September 1915 in Goulburn. He served as a Trooper with the 7th Light Horse Regiment from the end of 1916, spending most of the year in training and being treated for septic sores as well as being charged on three occasions with being absent without leave. During March and April 1917 the 7th Light Horse was involved in the attacks on Gaza in Palestine. Bromley was admitted to hospital in July 1917 with tonsillitis but then diagnosed with chronic plumbisen, returning to Australia in November 1917 with debility and mental instability for discharge. He was discharged in Sydney on 24 January 1918. Bromley died in Sydney in 1946.

Description - height 5 feet 5 inches, weight 133 pounds, chest 33-35 inches, fair complexion, blue eyes, fair hair, Church of England.

Queanbeyan Age - 15 October 1915
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
NSW Births, Deaths & Marriages - http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/familyHistory/search.htm