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Pte. Frederick Brackenbury
British Army 13th Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:Owston Ferry, Lincolnshire
We are not sure when Frederick Brackenbury joined up. His brother Albert probably joined up first. We believe he was with the 5th Rifle Brigade. Fred was with the 13th. Sadly we know nothing about his record other than he did suffer gas attacks probably on the Somme and he was wounded in the shoulder late in the war.
Pte. Anthony Bradburn
British Army 9th Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:Denton
(d.9th Sep 1916)
Casualty report which was in the Manchester evening news 21st Sept 1916. Private Anthony Bradburn (24), of 76 Market-street, died of wounds on 9th of September 1916, exactly a month after joining his regiment. He worked for Messrs. Cooke, Smith, and Co. He had an older brother who was killed nine months earlier, and another brother who is disabled.
Cpl. Dennis Bradbury
British Army 10th Btn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regt)
from:Guiseley, Yorkshire
(d.10th Jun 1917)
I knew very little about my great uncle Dennis Bradbury, until quite recently, when I began to research my family tree. He was involved in the fighting just South East of Ypres, at a place called Zillebeke, and among my grandmother's papers I found the following (undated) newspaper article.
"In reference to the late Corpl. Dennis Bradbury, whose death in action we chronicled last week, his sisters have received the following letter from Pioneer G. Ingle, of the West Riding Regiment: “Dear Friends, May we, the boys who were with him (Dennis Bradbury), offer you our deepest sympathy in your loss. He died nobly. Hearing a wounded man call, he at once went to assist, and I am sorry, very sorry, to say he was killed instantly. Surely no man could do more than this. We buried him near the spot, and will do our utmost to make him a cross (a proper one) when next we go that way. As I live near you (Ilkley), we had many talks of home and promised to see each other if we got back safely. After making inquiries I obtained this address, which I think is his sister’s. We were together all the time and we realise that we have lost a good and faithful pal. He died bravely and nobly, doing his duty, helping his comrade. May this comfort all of you, his relatives at home. It reminds one of “Greater love hath no man than this.” Anything I can tell you, or do, ask me. Someday, perhaps, I may see you. Please accept our deepest sympathy in your loss. May God give you strength to bear it bravely. With best wishes”
How very sad that I rarely heard his name mentioned during my childhood, although I have carried his photograph, in a locket my Grandmother gave me, for many years.
Cpt. Edward Kinder Bradbury VC
British Army L Bty. Royal Horse Artillery
from:Altrincham, Cheshire
(d.1st September 1914)
Edward Bradbury died on 1st September 1914, aged 33 and is buried in the Nery communal cemetery in France. He was the son of Judge James Kinder Bradbury and Grace Bradbury, of Altrincham, Cheshire
An extract from The London Gazette, dated 24th Nov., 1914, records the following:- For gallantry and ability in organising the defence of "L" Battery against heavy odds at Nery on 1st September.
Ernie Bradbury
British Army Worcestershire Regiment
I have a letter from and photo from Ernie Bradbury sent to my great Aunt's sister, Jessie Reeves, written from the A 7 Ward, Ninian Park, 3rd Western General Hospital Cardiff. Date unknown. I am trying to find out who Ernie Bradbury was.
Spr. Horace Frederick Bradbury
Canadian Expeditionary Force. 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company
from:Chatham, Ontario, Canada
Horace Bradbury born 25th of September 1877, signed as willing to serve on the 28th of December 1915 and he stated his home was at 196 Kaleigh St. in Chatham Ontario where he resides with his wife Jane. He stated that he was born in Sheffield England and in 1915 he was a laborer and stood 5 ft 2&3/4 inches tall and listed his religion as Salvation Army. He had a dark complexion and his eyes were brown and he had dark hair. Witnessed by J.C. Grant.
According to the “Canadian Expeditionary Force 70th Battalion Nominal Role Of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men”, Private Horace Frederick Bradbury was Taken on Strength 28th of December 1915 at London, Ontario. He embarked from Port Halifax onboard the SS Lapland for England, arriving on the 5th of May 1916. On the 6th of July Horace was transferred to the 39th Reserve Battalion at South Cliffs at West Sandbury.
He arrived in France on the 14th of January 1917 and on the 3rd of February he left the Canadian Brigade Depot to join the 1st Canadian Tunneling Division being attached to the 1st. Canadian Tunneling Coy. Horace was wounded at Ypres France on the 23rd of September with a severe Gunshot Wound to his left knee, X-rays were done the same day. On the 25th he was admitted to No.5 General Hospital at Rouen and transferred to No.3 Southern General Hospital at Oxford on the 7th of October. Paperwork dated 28th of November shows Horaces wife Jane resided at 51 Scane Street Chatham. On the 15th of December 1917 Horace was transferred to Cowley Section Hospital and on the 18th of January to the Canadian Orthapedic Hospital. On the 27th of March 1918 Horace was transferred to Convalescent Hospital Woodcote Park, Epsom and on the 31st of May sailed from Liverpool heading back to Canada, boarded Ship Goorka sailing from Avonmouth to Halifax. On the 13th of June was posted to the Hospital Section at London Ontario and granted furlough with subs. But on the 14th was admitted to Hospital with potential influenza. On the 11th of July Horace was granted permission to wear 3 Blue Chevrons at London Ontario and was discharged from hospital on the 1st of August. On the 15th of October he was admitted to LMCH with influenza and he was discharged on the 24th. On the 8th of January 1919 Horace was posted to Casualty Coy from Hospital Section LMCH and the following day was discharged from as Medically Unfit. At this time he had a 8 inch long scar on his left poplietel area and a 2 inch long scar on his Poplietel area and a 2 inch long scar on his left inner thigh (lower 1/3).
Lawrence William Bradbury
British Army 101st Field Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Birmingham
L/Cpl. Robert John Bradbury
British Army 7th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment
(d.2nd March 1916)
Robert Bradbury served in the 7th Btn Lincolnshire Regiment. He was killed in action, but has no known grave. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
Pte. Sampson Bradbury
British Army 2nd Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Hanley, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire
(d.10th Apr 1917)
Pte. Nicholson Braddock
British Army 10th Battalion Duke of Wellingtons (West Rding Regiment)
from:Swalwell, Co.Durham
(d.20th Sep 1917)
My Great Uncle, the youngest of 3 Braddock Brothers all killed within a year of each other (incl my G-Grandad Nicholas William Braddock) in different regiments on the western front. I have his service records which, unlike his brothers, were not destroyed by damage to the National Archives.
Apart from a big KIA scribbled across the top of them, they hold clues to a great little wartime story which I simply love, although the ending is not the best... Nicholson was detained for a period of 7 days, unpaid,for 'scrumping' the act of taking apples from an orchard without permission (a bit harsh considering the circumstances) however, he was eventually released..... on the 19 Sep 1917, just in time for the operations and his unfortuante death. But as a 5'2" soldier and a very young man (19), I just love it, the "cheeky little sod" as would be said in the North but a hero to me.
Sgt. Arthur John Braddy
British Army 2/5th Battalion Essex Regiment
from:Tolshunt Darcy
Lt.Cmdr. George Nicholson Bradford VC.
Royal Navy HMS Iris II
from:Milbanke, Darlington
(d.23rd April 1918)
Groeg Bradford was killed in action 23/04/1918, Ages 31. He is buried in Blankenberge Town cemetery in Belgium. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bradford, of Milbanke, Darlington. His brothers, James Barker Bradford and Roland Boys Bradford also died on active service.
An extract from The London Gazette, No. 31236, dated 14th March, 1919, records the following:- "For most conspicuous gallantry at Zeebrugge on the night of the 22nd-23rd April, 1918. This Officer was in command of the Naval Storming Parties embarked in Iris II. When Iris II proceeded alongside the Mole great difficulty was experienced in placing the parapet anchors owing to the motion of the ship. An attempt was made to land by the scaling ladders before the ship was secured. Lieutenant Claude E. K. Hawkings (late Erin) managed to, get one ladder in position and actually reached the parapet, the ladder being crushed to pieces just as he stepped off it. This very gallant young officer was last seen defending himself with his revolver. He was killed on the parapet. Though securing the ship was not part of his duties, Lieut.-Commander Bradford climbed up the derrick, which carried a large parapet anchor and was rigged out over the port side; during this climb the ship was surging up and down and the derrick crashing on the Mole. Waiting his opportunity he jumped with the parapet anchor on to the Mole and placed it in position. Immediately after hooking on the parapet anchor Lieut.-Commander Bradford was riddled with bullets from machine guns and fell into the sea between the Mole and the ship. Attempts to recover his body failed. Lieut.-Commander Bradford''s action was one of absolute self-sacrifice; without a moment's hesitation he went to certain death, recognising that in such action lay the only possible chance of securing Iris II and enabling her storming parties to land."
Sjt. J. P. Bradford
Australian Imperial Force. 3rd Salvage Coy.
Pte. Jack Colclough Bradford
British Army 9th Btn Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment
(d.25th Apr 1917)
Cpl. James Bradford
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.8th May 1915)
2nd Lt. James Barker Bradford
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Folkestone, Kent
(d.14th May 1917)
James Bradford was born in 1890. He was commissioned into the 18th Battalion Durham Light Infantry (the Durham Pals) as a Second Lieutenant, serving with C Coy and gained the Military Cross for his bravery near Gommecourt, France in March 1917. James was severely wounded on 10 May 1917 near Arras and died of his wounds four days later aged 27 years of age. He is buried on Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun. He was the husband of Annie and son of the late George Bradford and his wife of Ravenlea Road, Folkstone, Kent. His wife requested the inscription Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. Her address is given as Towns Country Club, 73 Mortimer, St London. Find out more
Pte. James Horace Bradford
British Army 2/7th Btn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
from:Alfreton, Derbyshire
(d.5th May 1916)
Private Bradford was the son of William and Mary Bradford of Gladstone Terrace, Alfreton, Derbyshire.
He was 19 when he died and is buried in the Other Ranks part of the Kilmainham (Royal Hospital) Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland.
Pte. Joseph John Bradford
British Army 1st Battalion Kings Shropshire Light Infantry
from:Woolhope, Hereford
(d.1945)
Pte. Neville Bell Bradford
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.24th May 1915)
Pte. Percy Charles Bradford
British Army 1st Btn. Royal West Kent Regiment
from:Singlewell Road, Gravesend
My father Percy Bradford was born on the 18th July 1897. He joined the first Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment 31st of March 1914 at Woolwich, Kent. He was an assistant Nurseryman before enlisting. He was only 16 years of age and was amused by having joined under age! He stood 5' 6" and he is described in his Small Book as being of fresh complexion with black hair and Hazel eyes. His religion was C of E.
Initially he went to Dublin and from there to Le Havre. Like all old soldiers who had had terrible experiences, he spoke very little about the actions that he took part in but on prompting by me he would sometimes divulge snippets of information. He talked about marching for days through thick mud up to his thighs and being covered in lice. The food was remembered with disgust, he hated corned beef or bully beef as he called it and the cheese and biscuits he said they called bung hole. One can only imagine why!
Dad talked about being left alone in no man's land and crawling back through the barbed wire to be challenged by a sentry of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. Dad let out a trail of expletives at him and then they let him back. He related that when on Hill 60 in April 1915 he was ordered by Captain Tuff to follow him in charging a machine gun nest. Captain Tuff was killed and out of D Company only 10 men were left alive. My father is in the Imperial War Museum photograph far left at the back.
We have a photograph showing his company after they had been on the front line for nineteen days (he is front row second from the left). After continuously being in action he was badly wounded on the 1st of July 1916 during the Battle of the Somme and returned to the Military hospital in Southampton. He was advised by the medical officers that he should have his damaged hand amputated which he refused. He told me that with only one hand he would never get work and so he used to bathe his arm in salt water which he said saved the arm although he could not use his hand for the remainder of his life. He is still bandaged in the photograph taken of him with the first of his nine children in 1919. On being discharged from hospital he was transferred into a Labour Battalion and sent to Ireland until his discharge from the Army in 1919.
He followed his father into work at the docks in the port of London. He suffered from what we now know was Combat Stress Disorder for the rest of his life and his WW1 pals were the last thing he mentioned to me before he died in 1985.
Lt -Col Roland B. Bradford
Army 9th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Capt. T. A. Bradford
Army 8th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. William Elijah Bradford
British Army 8th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
from:Great Wratting, Suffolk
(d.2nd July 1917)
Pte. William Bradford
British Army 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Gainsborough
(d.19th Feb 1915)
William Bradford was wounded and was in a hospital when it was captured by the Germans. The POWs were tranferred to Germany where he died of pneumonia, He now lies in Berlin South-Western Cemetery, Berlin.
Rifleman Henry Thomas Brading
British Army 21st Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Old Ford, London
(d.20th September 1917)
Pte. Alfred Bradley MM
British Army 54th Company Machine Gun Corps(Infantry)
from:Lumb Rossendale, Lancashire
(d.6th June 1917)
Son of Thomas and Eva Emma Bradley. Buried in grave 1.C.13 in St Martin Calvaire British Cemetery, in the Pas De Calais area.
His brother James, served with Kings Own Scottish Borderers 1/5 Bn and was killed in Egypt on 04/08/1916. Their mother, my maternal Great Grandmother, Eva, had died in 1913, so was unaware of the loss of two sons. My Grandfather, Thomas Bradley, Alfred and James's brother was exempted from service due to their deaths. My mother, nee Beryl Bradley, their niece, was delighted to have visited Alfred' grave prior to her death. The Military Medal, won by Alfred, was given to one of his older sisters, Ada, but has not been located since.
Pte. Alfred John Bradley
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Linconshire Regiment
from:Battersea
(d.24th Aug 1914)
Alfred Bradley had a tattoo of St George and the dragon on his chest. His hobby was boxing and his sparring partner was Billy Wells (the strong man who hit the gong in Rank film introduction). He was known for being friendly, practical, independent and liking country cottages.
Alfred ran away from home to join the British Army because he didn't get on with his stepfather Mr Hooper. Served in the Army in India 1898 - 1902; 1903 South Africa (burying the dead after the Boer War); 1904- 1910 India. Returned to England as a reserve and got work as a motor tyre repairer. He was married on 25th of Dec 1912 to Ada Hunt and thier son Alf was born in Sept 1913.
The 1st Lincolnshire Regiment was part of the 9th Brigade, 3rd Division. The Division left by sea on the SS Norman on 13 August 1914, for France, part of the original British Expeditionary Force. They disembarked at Le Havre on 14th August 1914. They marched to Mons where they fought their first action on the 23rd but had to break off their engagement on the 24th and join what was a general retreat. On 24 August in Frameries they acted as a rearguard for the withdrawal of 9th Brigade.
The 24 August 1914 is believed to be the day that Alf Bradley died further to engaging the German forces. The partial map of Frameries showing burial places of the English soldiers incl Pte Bradley. He died along with about 40 others the same day. The army records his death as taking place at Marne on 8th Sept 1914 but friend and locals say he was killed on the 24th of August. A friend saw him buried in a garden by local peasants then. Local people made a map in 1915 which showed where the British soldiers were buried. In 1918 he was reburied by the army at Bezu-le-Guery communal cemetery near Chateau Thierry in a shared grave with other soldiers killed at around the same time. The date of death on the memorial stone is 8th Sept 1914, but the date of death on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records signed as checked in 1921 (after earlier versions of the document had been variously amended) record that this was a reburial from another place. The confusion about dates reflects the fast pace of action and loss at the time.
It's known that Alf's regiment fought in Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien's delaying action at Le Cateau and then joined the rest of the British Army as they fell back to the Marne Valley. On the night of the 7th of September 1914 the 1st Lincolns were in billets at the village of La Bretonniere which they left at 6am the following morning. At around 10.30am they had stopped to rest in a field near Bezu when their Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Smith, received a message from Brigade informing him that 'a German battery was doing serious damage by shelling our column approaching the Marne.' Captain Drake, along with C and D Companies, worked their way through the woods to the west of Bezu and crept to within 150 yards of the guns before rushing forward and shooting down the German gunners and their escort almost to a man. When they dashed out of the thicket to secure the guns they were spotted by the 65th (Howitzer) Battery Royal Artillery who mistook them for Germans and opened fire on them. They were forced to seek cover and this burst of "friendly fire" cost the Lincolns casualties of one officer killed with three wounded and some thirty other ranks killed or wounded. Robert Drake was one of the officers wounded but he died later the same day. This action tends to explain the choice of cemetery for the deaths in Bezu and those of the members of the regiment who had died in Frameries only days earlier.
Pte. Alfred Bradley MM.
British Army 54th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
from:Higher Walls Farm, Lumb, Waterfoot, Manchester.
(d.6th Jun 1917)
Alfred Bradley was the second son of the family to have been killed in WW1, his younger brother James was killed in Egypt in August 1916.
Whilst Alfred was serving with the Gordon Highlanders he was awarded the Military Medal. He later joined the 54th Company, Machine Gun Corps, and was killed in Arass on 6th June 1917. He is buried in France.
Alfred and brother James were my mother's uncles and my Great Uncles. Prior to joining the army he lived and worked on the family farm and was also a carter for the local cotton mills.
Pte. Arthur Edward Bradley
British Army 9th Battalion Dorset Regiment
from:Broadlayings, Woolton Hill, Newbury, Berkshire
(d.8th Oct 1918)
Arthur Edward Bradley was my uncle, the eldest son of Frank and Ellen Bradley. He was born on 11th September 1891, one of seven siblings. He worked as a domestic gardener prior to the war. He served in the 9th Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment and during the war must have had some leave because on 16th September 1916 he married Florence Sims in Kintbury. When the war ended my grandmother had certain possessions belonging to Arthur returned to her. His wife, Florence went into Newbury to meet every troop train but of course he was never on any of them. I gather it was many weeks after the war that the family had confirmation that he had been killed on 8th October 1918.
He is buried in Bellicourt british Cemetery in France and his name is on two War Memorials, one at St. Thomas' Church, Woolton Hill and the other at St. Mary's Church, Kintbury. He has always been very much remembered, and in fact still is, by past and present members of the Bradley Family.
2Lt. Arthur Bradley MM.
British Army 6th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Westfield House, Morley
(d.24th August 1917)
Arthur Bradley was a pre-war Territorial. From his address, and the 1917 6-digit number, he was most likely in 1/4th Battalion. His Medal Index Card shows he disembarked in France 13th of April 1915, so was with 148th Brigade. He was a Lance Corporal, but was soon promoted to Sergeant. He was awarded the Military Medal in 1916. He was recommended for a commission, to which he was discharged 29th of June 1917. He was posted to 6th Battalion, KOYLI and was killed in action at the Menin Road 24th of August 1917.
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