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Dec 08, 1915 Smethwick, England, United Kingdom Died on 06 Jun 1944 (aged 28)
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About Den Brotheridge
- Lieutenant Herbert Denham Brotheridge (8 December 1915 - 6 June 1944) was a British Army officer who served with the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 52nd) during the Second World War.
- He is often considered to be the first Allied soldier to be killed in action on D-Day, 6 June 1944.
- He was killed during Operation Tonga: the British airborne landings which secured the left flank of the invasion area before the main assault on the Normandy beaches began.
