Brogden was born in Blackburn, England on November 13, 1884. He married Nellie Scully, whom he affectionately called Sunny, in England before the pair emigrated to Toronto. There, Brogden ran the projector at Rogers Road Theatre and Scully ran the concession stand.

Edward Brogden enlisted with the 126th Battalion from Toronto on February 14, 1916 at age thirty-two.

“I remember him as a tall, quiet man with a strong English accent,” said Betty Greenwood, Brogden’s great niece. She remembers Scully as the opposite. “She did all the laughing and the talking.”

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