40627 Private Harry Broughton of the 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment was killed in action on the 27th November 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial on the Somme.
Harry's original number - 4722 - suggests that he initially joined on of the Territorial Force battalions and transferred to the 6th Battalion once overseas. 4722 for the 4th Battalion dates to October 1915; for the 5th Battalion, January 1916. He certainly didn't proceed overseas until 1916. No service record appears to survive for him.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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