Name
Walter Henry Bradley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/09/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14999
Worcestershire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 64 and 65.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Leavesden Asylum/Hospital War Memorial, Leavesden, All Saints Church Leavesden Herts.
Pre War
Walter was born 1891 in Botley, Oxon., to Albert Bradley, a carpenter and joiner, and Martha (nee Eaglestone). On the 1901 Census Walter was living with his widowed mother,(his Father had died in 1894), at Bulwarks Alley, Oxford with his 2 elder Brothers, Albert W and Ernest F and 3 sisters Lizzie, Edith and Constance.
On the 1911 Census Walter was working as a servant at St Peter’s College, Radley, Abingdon, Oxon. While it is difficult to determine when Walter moved to the Leavesden area, there is record of a WH Bradley residing at Leavesden Asylum on 1915 on Electoral Rolls.
Wartime Service
Walter enlisted in London for the Worcestershire Regiment as Private 14999 (his service number may have been issued Sep /Oct 1914 as 13476 was issued in Mar 1914). As his Service record seems not to have survived full details are not available, however it is known that he went to join the 2nd Battalion, in France on 27 May 1915.
The 2nd Division were detailed to take part in the Battle of Loos (15 Sep -15 Oct 1915). Walter was killed in action on 26 Sep 1915 in the fighting in the Canal Area (La Bassee). His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Loos Memorial.
Additional Information
War gratuity of £3 10s and arrears of £5 14s 10d was paid to his mother with a small amount of £1 2s 11d to his brother Ernest.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk,
