Den Brotheridge

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Lt. Herbert Denham Brotheridge was a British Army officer, and was the first Allied soldier to be killed in action on D-Day, 6 June 1944, during Operation Tonga.

Brotheridge commanded a platoon in Major John Howard's 'D' Company, Ox and Bucks Light Infantry, 6th Airborne Division, and led a charge across the Bridge now known as Pegasus Bridge. He was killed by a shot to the neck and died in the early hours of 6th June aged 29. He is buried in the War Cemetery in Ranville Churchyard near Caen in France.^[1] Ranville was the first village in France to be liberated.

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1. ^ Casualty Details. Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved on 2006-07-28.