John Raymond Broadbent

Brigadier John Raymond Broadbent, CBE (18 February 1893 – 28 February 1972) was a senior Australian Army officer in the Second World War.

Broadbent, Service Number: NX34728 (N8), was born in Ballarat, Victoria and enlisted in Sydney on 14 June 1940.

Broadbent held numerous posts during the Second World War, while also acting as a temporary brigadier and was Mentioned in Despatches in 1945. He held the following posts:

• 1940 – Commanding Officer 7th Light Horse
• 1940 – General Staff Officer 1 1st Australian Cavalry Division
• 1940–1941 – Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General 8th Australian Infantry Division [Malaya]
• 1942 – Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster-General New Guinea Force
• 1942–1943 – Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster-General I Australian Corps [New Guinea]
• 1943–1944 – Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster-General II Australian Corps
• 1944–1945 – Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster-General I Australian Corps

• Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• Mention in Despatches