Louis Deniol Broughton is also remembered on the Hawarden WW2 War Memorial, please click on the link to read his story.
Louis and his siblings all attended the school:-
Hawarden Grammar School Admissions Register E/GS/1/10
479//475 BROUGHTON, Horace Jas., D.o B – 10th September 1901, Church View, Hawarden, Father Engineer, D. O Entry – 14th September 1914. Queensferry Cl., D. Of Leaving – July 1919.
563/669 BROUGHTON, Joseph Eric, D. Of Birth – 13th February 1904, Church View, Hawarden, Engineer, D. Of Entry – 11th September 1916, Queensferry Cl. , Schol. £3, £3 £1, D. Of Leaving June 1919.
713/927 BROUGHTON, Harry Vivian, D. O Birth – 3rd December 1906, Church View, Hawarden, Foreman Turner, D. Of Entry – 22nd September 1919, Queensferry Council, Sch. £3, D. Of Leaving 21st February 1921 Clerk, Farmer’s Union.
970/1423 BROUGHTON, Louis Deniol, D. O Birth 7th March 1912, Church View, Hawarden, Pattern Maker (Dec.), Date of Entry – 16th September 1924, Hawarden N.P. Sch ., £3, £3, D. Of Leaving 30th October 1928.
I hope that his brother and family were able to attend the dedication of the the Roll of Honour at Hawarden Grammar School on the 3rd February 1951 with a Remembrance Service for the 47* former pupils who died in the 1939 – 1945 World War. As recorded in the Chester Chronicle Saturday 10th February 1951.
*Author’s note, there are 46 names on the Roll of Honour, clerical error by the newspaper.
