Brass memorial to Cuthbert Bromley who was a victim of the First World War. He was the son of Sir John Bromley who lived at Sutton Corner. He was a major in the Lancashire Fusiliers and was involved in the fateful Gallipoli landings of April 1915. Despite the horrendous fire from enemy positions, Bromley managed to get his troops ashore and take the beach and nearby cliffs. For his actions he was awarded the Victoria Cross, one of seven people with a Seaford connection to have one of the highest medals for gallantry. Unfortunately he was killed later in the year when the ship he was travelling on was sunk. He has no known grave but is remembered on the Helles Memorial in Turkey. Bromley Road in Seaford is named after him.
In ever dear memory of our beloved son
CUTHBERT BROMLEY V.C.
Major and Adjutant 1st Battalion
Lancashire Fusiliers (XX Regiment)
who lost his life in the Service
of his Country when the Transport
Royal Edward was torpedoed in the
Aegean Sea on Aug. 14th 1915, in his 37th year.
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Have they not heard the Master’s sweet “Well done,
Enter My rest, your crown of life is won.”
Also remembered on the family grave in Seaford Cemetery and on a memorial stone beside the Seaford War Memorial.
