Cuthbert Bromley

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Cuthbert Bromley (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.

He was 36 years old, and a Temporary Major in the 1st Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

On 25 April 1915 west of Cape Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey, three companies and the Headquarters of the 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, when landing on W Beach, were met by a very deadly fire from hidden machine-guns which caused a large number of casualties. The survivors, however, rushed up and cut the wire entanglements notwithstanding the terrific fire from the enemy and after overcoming supreme difficulties, the cliffs were gained and the position maintained. See also John Elisha Grimshaw, William Keneally, Alfred Joseph Richards, Frank Edward Stubbs and Richard Raymond Willis.

He was killed in the sinking of the troopship Royal Edward, in the Mediterranean between Alexandria and Gallipoli, on 13 August 1915.

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 was from Seaford, East Sussex and is remembered on the War Memorial in the town and on a brass memorial in St. Leonard's Church. A road in the town is named after him.

[1] earned on a beach that would thereafter become known as 'Lancashire Landing'. [2]