1. Captain John Egerton Broome DSC, known as Jackie Broome, was a Royal Navy officer who served in both World Wars.
20 Facts About Jack Broome
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Jack Broome commanded the escort group of the ill-fated Arctic Convoy PQ 17 in 1942.
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Jack Broome was born in 1901 in Seattle, Washington, to Louis Egerton Broome and Clara Kathleen Lake.
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Jack Broome's father was an English adventurer who had joined the gold rush to the Klondike.
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Jack Broome accompanied his parents to Panama in 1907, but returned to England, where he was raised largely by his mother's relatives.
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Jack Broome attended Oakwood School, Surrey and in 1914 entered the Royal Naval College at Osborne.
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Jack Broome served in several submarines from 1923 to 1938, except for two short spells on the capital ships HMS Tiger and HMS Royal Oak.
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Jack Broome married Sybil Nicholas in 1928, with whom he had a son and a daughter.
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Jack Broome reached the rank of commander in 1936, while commanding the submarine, HMS Rainbow.
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Characteristically, Jack Broome applied for membership of the Company of Veteran Motorists, who made the ship a life member.
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Jack Broome acquired a German torpedo, which had missed its target and run onto the shore of a fjord.
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Jack Broome's cartoons enlivened many drab briefing rooms and dreary routine reports.
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Since the first of the messages was not directly addressed to Jack Broome, he was not immediately aware that the cruisers were withdrawing.
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Jack Broome asked the reason why PQ 17 was scattered but received no satisfactory answer.
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Jack Broome was surprised to be promoted to captain, and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 1943.
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Jack Broome's aircraft sank a particularly troublesome U-Boat in the Indian Ocean late in 1944, for which Broome was Mentioned in Dispatches.
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Jack Broome was awarded the Burma Star for his service in Indian waters.
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Jack Broome wrote a number of books on naval subjects, and edited and illustrated several humorous collections of naval signals.
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Jack Broome was a founder member of the Lord's Taverners Cricket Club.
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Jack Broome was naval advisor for several films, including The Cruel Sea.