Name
David Irad Bradshaw
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/10/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
16016
Bedfordshire Regiment
8th Bn.
“B” Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS BRITISH CEMETERY
XX.A.15.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
St Mary's Church Memorial, Shephall, Not on the Stevenage Old Town memorials, Not on the Widford memorials, Not on the Wormley memorials
Pre War
David Irad Bradshaw was born in Wormley, Herts in 1895, the son of David and Ethel Bradshaw (nee White) who had married the same year. He was baptised on 25 August 1895 at Wormley. He had a sister Violet Maud White who was born in 1892.
It seems his parents separated and his father moved to Hampshire where he married again to May Rosa Hill in 1901. Meanwhile, on the 1901 Census he was living with his mother and 'stepfather' Charles Nottage at Amwell Haw Farm at Little Amwell, Herts.
By the 1911 Census they had moved to Half Hide Farm, Shephall, Stevenage, Herts and David was working as a general labourer on the farm and had adopted the name of Nottage. According to SDIGW he was said to be living at Widford, near Ware, Herts on enlistment.
Pension records give his mother's name as Nottage and her address as Hoo Farm Cottages, Whitwell, Welwyn, Herts, however, there is no record of a marriage between his mother and his stepfather until 1928.
Wartime Service
David enlisted in Hertford, joining the Bedfordshire Regiment. He arrived in France on the 30 August 1915 with the 8th Battalion.
He would have fought in the Battle of Loos in September 1915 and in the Battles of the Somme in 1916.
On the 9 October 1917 the Battalion were in support positions at Cite St. Pierre near Lens. There was only one casualty suffered on this date and this was as a result of heavy shelling of the Battalion headquarters. It must be assumed that this casualty was David Bradshaw.
He is buried in the Loos British Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His mother, Mrs Ethel Nottage, received a war gratuity of £13 10s and pay owing of £9 4s 0d. She also received a pension of five shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Malcolm Lennox, Paul Johnson, www.bedfordregiment.org.uk,
