Help with identifying WW1 sodier's parents:

[andycadman]

I noticed the crossing out too.

So what is the story behind the "Broome E"  listed on the Ironville & Codnor Park war memorial?

It is a real conundrum.

Any advice much appreciated.

[OurReg]

It is odd!

Another of the forms on the CWGC (Headstone Text) there looks like a gap between the 'M' and the 'E' in BROOME, although it also gives the initial 'E' beforehand.

They seem to have settled on Broome for all Memorials, but perhaps he was a Brown with a close relative (brother?) named Andrew? 

If this is Florence, she was either named as his beneficiary before she married - possibly intended wife, or she was the only known surviving relative through the Brown she married (but for that to be the case, he would have died fairly soon after marriage and she was still using the name Campanelle - questionable, but there was money involved, albeit a small amount).

It throws up many different directions of search!

[andycadman]

Thank you for your thoughts "OurReg".

It certainly is very puzzling.

So where to from here?

[jess5athome]

Hi, there is a Facebook Group:-

"7th Battalion Notts and Derbys (The Robin Hoods)"

You could ask on there if anyone could put any light on the matter, they have answered a couple of query's for me in the past regarding other Nott's and Derby Battalions 

Frank.

[andycadman]

Perhaps worth a try thank you "jess5athome".  All help appreciated.

[OurReg]

Andrew Brown outlived Florence, so if she was related by marriage to a 'Brown' rather than 'Broom(e)', she wasn't the beneficiary by being the last living.  Both moved back to Salford at some point after their marriage and lived there until their deaths.  Florence died Q4 1949 and Andrew Q4 1966.

Have searched but the then unmarried Brown children and their parents seemed to disappear under that name pre-war, so maybe they became Broome for a while!  The 'Brown' parents had 3 sons older than Andrew (Andrew was about 6 years younger than Florence), so it could be possible that one of the other sons was a Brown who became a Broom(e), as the Military didn't seem sure either.
 
Can't think why he would have Florence as a sole beneficiary though, if she married a possible brother a year before he himself died, so I could be barking up the wrong tree entirely.  Feel free to bark back if you find out more!