Lieutenant Herbert Denham Brotheridge (8 December 1915 – 6 June 1944) was a British Army officer who served with the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 52nd) during the Second World War.

[2] 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.

[3] The first coup de main glider-borne platoon left RAF Tarrant Rushton, Dorset, at 22:56 on 5 June 1944 on a moonlit night,[5] initially flying 70 mi (110 km) eastwards[6] and crossing the English coast over Worthing, Sussex.

Brotheridge's platoon's glider piloted by Staff Sergeant Jim Wallwork landed in Normandy at 00:16 on 6 June less than 50 ft (15 m) from the water tower of the Benouville Bridge.

Brotheridge was hit in the back of the neck by the machine gun fire and died of wounds without regaining consciousness in the early hours of 6 June, aged 28, in a Casualty Collection Post situated in a trench between the Caen Canal and Orne bridges, where Captain John Vaughan RAMC took care of him.