# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/den-brotheridge
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:54:23.498Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/den-brotheridge"
name: "Den Brotheridge"
slug: "den-brotheridge"
description: "Lieutenant Herbert Denham Brotheridge was a British Army officer who served with the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry during the Second World War. He is often considered to be the first Allied soldier to be killed in action on D-Day, 6 June 1944. He was killed during Operation Tonga: the British airborne landings which secured the left flank of the invasion area before the main assault on the Normandy beaches began."
tagline: "British Army officer (1915–1944)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0a/Brotheridge.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1915-12-08"
deathDate: "1944-06-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.95
  momentum:             25
  historical:           5.544930666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_Brotheridge"
    title: "Den Brotheridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%AC"
    title: "دين بروثيريدج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_Brotheridge"
    title: "Den Brotheridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_Brotheridge"
    title: "Den Brotheridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Denham_Brotheridge"
    title: "Herbert Denham Brotheridge"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dens_Broterid%C5%BEs"
    title: "Dens Broteridžs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1186736"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump