Regimental number | 3015 |
Place of birth | Fremantle, Western Australia |
School | Fremantle Boys' School, Western Australia |
Religion | Church of England |
Occupation | Carpenter's apprentice |
Address | East Fremantle, Western Australia |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 18 |
Next of kin | Father, Benjamin Bradley, Silas Street, East Fremantle, Western Australia |
Previous military service | Served 3 years in the Naval Reserve, Western Australia. |
Enlistment date | |
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 44th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/61/3 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A28 Miltiades on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 5th Machine Gun Battalion |
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | His body was found by his brother who dug his grave and buried him. |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium |
Date of death | |
Age at death | 19.6 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 19 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 31), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 177 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Benjamin and Alice BRADLEY, Silas Street, East Fremantle, Western Australia |
Family/military connections | Brother: 2836 Lance Corporal Jack Edward BRADLEY, 12th Bn, returned to Australia, 15 February 1918. |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Embarked from Fremantle, 29 January 1917; disembarked Devonport, 27 March 1917. Admitted to Fargo Military Hospital, 7 May 1917 (influenza); discharged to Depot, 15 May 1917. Transferred to Machine Gun Details, Grantham, 16 June 1917; taken on strength, 25th Machine Gun Company, 16 August 1917. Proceeded overseas to France, 7 September 1917. Killed in action, 25 September 1917. OC, 25th Machine Gun Company, advised that 'Pte Bradley was one of a carrying party who were carrying ammunition to the Gun Positions, on the afternoon of 25.9.17, when he received a direct hit from an enemy shell. He died on the spot a few minutes later. It cannot be ascertained who buried him, but it is known that he was buried.' Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |