Edward A. Broomhead was born in Carcroft, Yorkshire England April 23, 1918 to his loving parents Thomas and Bertha (Hindby) Broomhead. Edward graduated from the University of Sheffield Medical School in 1942 and immediately entered the British 21st Army medical corps where he served in various places including: England, Scotland, France and India. During his service time in England he met his future wife, Margaret Alice (Desborough) and in 1947 they were wed. Following the war, Edward finished his internship and started a practice in Maltby, a mining town in Southern Yorkshire. He practiced medicine there for eighteen years before immigrating to New Brunswick in 1966. We came to settle in Plaster Rock where he worked for three years out of the Tobique Valley Hospital. In 1969, Edward opened his practice in Sussex, along with his supportive colleague Marlene Munson at his side; he practiced medicine for the next 38 years until his retirement in 2007 at the age of eighty-nine.