Cuthbert Bromley

Major Cuthbert Bromley VC (19 September 1878 – 13 August 1915) 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 a son of John Bromley. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, King's Regiment (Liverpool), on 14 February 1896. He transferred to the Lancashire Fusiliers on 4 May 1898.

He was promoted from supernumerary lieutenant captain to captain on 24 June 1908.

Bromley was a captain in the 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, British Army, at the time of being 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.

He was promoted to major in September 1915.

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Bromley was wounded during the W Beach landing, and sustained a bullet injury to the knee on 28 April. He was wounded again during the Battle of Gully Ravine on 28 June, and was evacuated to Egypt to recover. On 13 August 1915, returning to the Gallipoli peninsula aboard the troopship , he was killed when the ship was torpedoed in the Mediterranean between Alexandria and Gallipoli, by the .

Bromley was promoted to acting Major on 13 June. Due to the illness of his commanding officer, taking command of the regiment in the Battle of Gully Ravine. Major Bromley was one of the six members of the regiment elected for the award, one of the famous "six VC's before breakfast". Bromley is remembered in his home town of Seaford on the War Memorial, and on a brass memorial in St. Leonard's Church. A road in the town is also named after him.

Medals Bromley's medals were last heard of at an auction in the 1980s.