Telegram, 5 May 1915

Noorinbee
Defence Dept Melb

Rumored my son HSF Broome fifteenth battalion Queensland Killed please inform is true

Charles Broome

413 Private Hider Stanley Filmer BROOME, a 21 year old Farmer from Barkers Creek, Nanango, Queensland. He enlisted in the AIF on 26 September 1914 and was allotted to the 15th Battalion, C Company which embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A40 Ceramic on 22 December 1914. BROOME subsequently Died of wounds 30 April 1915.

Sydney Mail, 26 May 1915, p. 26.