=BRACKSTONE, HENRY=, Corpl., No. 7248, 1st Battn. East Surrey Regt.; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc.; killed in action, 20 April, 1915; _m._
=BRADBURY, EDWARD CHAPNESS=, Private, No. 9409, 2nd Battn. Coldstream Guards, 2nd _s._ of Samuel Bradbury, of 65, Queen Street, Palfrey, Walsall, by his wife, Annie, dau. of William Baker; _b._ Walsall, 18 Dec. 1893; educ. Palfrey School, Walsall, and on leaving there was employed by Neville Bros. as a Portmanteau Lock Maker. He enlisted 18 Jan. 1911, and three months before war was declared was transferred to the 2nd Life Guards, but then transferred back to his old regt., and was killed in action by a shell in an attack on a farmhouse, 16 Nov. 1914; _unm._
=BRADBURY, EDWARD KINDER, V.C.=, Capt., L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, only _s._ of the late Judge James Kinder Bradbury, J.P., Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge, by his wife, Grace (Parkfield, Altrincham, Cheshire), dau. of the Rev. Edward Dowling; _b._ Bowden, co. Chester, 16 Aug. 1881; educ. St. Ninian’s, Moffat, Marlborough College and Woolwich; gazetted to the Royal Field Artillery, 2 May, 1900, and promoted Lieut. 3 April, 1901, and Capt. 4 Feb. 1910. He joined the 125th Battery in Ireland, and in the later stages of the South African War obtained a commission in Fincastle’s Horse, with which he served on active service, obtaining the Queen’s medal with two clasps. After the close of that campaign he returned to Ireland, but in 1905 went to Uganda, and served with the 4th Battn. of the King’s African Rifles till Aug. 1906, when he was invalided home after severe fever. Coming home, he was transferred to the R.H.A., and on the outbreak of war went to France with the Expeditionary Force. At Néry, near Compiegne, on the last day of the retreat from Mons (1 Sept. 1914), L Battery, while covering the retreat, was attacked by a strong German force with ten field guns and two Maxims. Three British guns were brought into action, but two were quickly silenced. Capt. Bradbury and his men served the remaining gun so well, however, that all but one of the German guns were silenced; and when L Battery was relieved this gun was captured. “Bradbury,” writes an artillery officer, recounting this story, “was the real hero. He got the gun into action and gave the orders. Mundy knelt on one side and did ranging officer, and Brad., Campbell and Giffard, with the Battery Sergt.-Major, Gunner and Driver, served the gun. Brad. had one leg taken off above the knee, but still went on; Campbell ... was killed; Mundy was hit in both legs; the Major, coming back hastily, was hit in the throat as he arrived. Bradbury had his other leg taken off. Giffard was badly wounded, and still they kept the last gun firing, and when I Battery and the other Brigade came up they found that the Germans had left their guns and bolted.” Capt. Bradbury, who was _unm._, was buried in the cemetery at Néry. He was mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 7 Sept. [London Gazette, 19 Oct. 1914], and was awarded the Victoria Cross “For gallantry and ability in organising the defence of L Battery against heavy odds at Néry on 1 Sept.” A General wrote: “Your son was simply beloved by us all from me, his General, down to the last joined subaltern. He was very nearly four years under my command, and I looked upon him as one of the most brilliant officers I had ever come across, one who, had God willed it, had a great career in front of him, and the manner in which he met his death fighting a single gun to the end after the loss of one leg was worthy of him.”
[Illustration: =Edward Kinder Bradbury.=]
=BRADDOCK, ARTHUR LESLIE=, Assistant Paymaster, R.N.R., H.M.S. Cressy, _s._ of William Braddock, of Sydney, New South Wales, Chartered Accountant, by his wife, Alice, dau. of (--) Norman, Dental Surgeon; _b._ Adelaide, South Australia, 22 Feb. 1877; educ. Adelaide; joined the Royal Naval Reserve, Jan. 1908, and was appointed Assistant Paymaster, 3 Feb. 1911, with seniority of 30 Jan. 1908. He was appointed to the Cressy 1 Aug. 1914, and was lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. He _m._ at Liverpool, 15 July, 1912, Jeannie Scott (19, Huskisson Street, Liverpool), dau. of the late Capt. William Henry Burt; _s.p._
=BRADDOCK, HARRY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13669 (Ports.), H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=BRADFORD, ARTHUR JESSE GEORGE=, L.-Corpl., No. 766, B Coy., 16th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, elder _s._ of the late Arthur Jesse Bradford, of Clapton, N.E., by his wife, Gabriella (now a nurse, of 106, Valkyrie Road, Westcliffe-on-Sea), dau. of Jesse Witts, of Gloucester; _b._ Plaistow, co. Essex, 14 Nov. 1895; educ. London Orphan School, Watford; joined the (Temperley & Co.) Merchant Service when 16; then settled in Bunbury, Western Australia (1913), and when war broke out was in the Bush, engaged in the lumber trade. He immediately volunteered; left for Egypt with the Second Reinforcements in Dec. 1914; took part in the landing at the Dardanelles, 25 April, 1915, and was killed in action there the same day; _unm._ His yr. brother, Edward Lionel Bradford, L.-Corpl., No. 142397, No. 1 Co., R.E. (Signal Service), is now (1916) on active service.
[Illustration: =Arthur Jesse G. Bradford.=]
=BRADFORD, SIR EVELYN RIDLEY=, 2nd Bt., Lieut.-Col. 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, eldest _s._ of Sir Edward Ridley Colborne Bradford, 1st Bt., some time (1890–1903) Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, and an extra Equerry to His Majesty the King, by his 1st wife, Elizabeth Adela, dau. of Edward Knight, of Chanton House, Alton; _b._ India, 16 April, 1869; educ. Eton and Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 22 Aug. 1888, and promoted Lieut. 11 June, 1890, Capt. 3 July 1895, Major 26 June, 1902, Brevet Lieut.-Col. 10 May, 1913, and Lieut.-Col. 10 June, 1913. He served with the Soudan Expedition in 1898, being present at the Battles of the Atbara and Khartoum, and on the staff in the South African War, 1899–1902. He took part in the operations in the Orange Free State from May to 29 Nov. 1900, including actions at Poplar Grove, and Driefontein, and Witteberjer (1–29 July), and during the operations in Cape Colony, Feb.-March, 1901. His services were twice mentioned in Despatches [London Gazette, 7 May and 10 Sept. 1901], and in addition to the Queen’s medal with four clasps and the King’s medal with two clasps, he received his brevet majority and was placed on the list of officers considered qualified for staff employment in consequence of service on the Staff in the field. At the time of the outbreak of the European War he was in command of the 2nd Battn. of the Seaforths, the old 78th, and took them out from Shorncliffe in Brig.-Gen. J. A. L. Haldane’s 10th Infantry Brigade, which was brought up from the lines of communication in France to cover the retirement of the Expeditionary Force on Cambray. This duty was performed in the centre of the line by Major-Gen. Snow’s 4th Division, consisting of the 10th, 11th and 12th Infantry Brigades. These units broke the front of the German pursuit, and suffered in consequence. as the 1st and 2nd Army Corps fell back. He was killed in action at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept. 1914, and was buried at Bucy Le Long, near Soissons. Sir Edward Bradford was a famous cricketer and played many fine games for Hampshire and the Army with Major Poore and Capt Wynyard, of the Staff College, as contemporaries, the last time he played in the County Eleven being against Surrey, at Aldershot, in 1902. He _m._ at Colgate, Faygate, Sussex, 25 Nov. 1909, Elsie Clifton, 3rd dau. of Col. James Clifton Brown, and had three children: Sir Edward Montagu Andrew, now 3rd Bt., _b._ 30 Nov. 1910; Ridley Lewkenor, _b._ 11 April, 1912, and Donald Clifton, _b._ 22 May, 1914.
[Illustration: =Sir Evelyn R. Bradford.=]
=BRADFORD, GEORGE RICHARD=, 2nd Engineer, No. 773, H.M. trawler Tern, _s._ of William Bradford, Labourer; _b._ 1878; was lost in the trawler Tern off the west coast of Scotland, 23 Feb. 1915, while mine sweeping. He _m._ at Hull, 28 June, 1898, Alice Edith (78, Day Street, Hessle Road, Hull), dau. of Robert Dibnah, Lamplighter, and had two sons, George Thomas, _b._ 16 Feb. 1904, and Charles Henry, _b._ 5 April, 1912.
[Illustration: =George Richard Bradford.=]
=BRADLEY, ERIC JATINGA=, Private, No. 140, 5th Battn. (London Rifle Brigade) The London Regt., eldest _s._ of James Bradley, of Grovehill, Suckley, co. Worcester, Tea Planter; _b._ London, 28 June, 1892; educ. Rottingdean, Rugby and Pembroke College Cambridge (Honours); entered at the Inner Temple, but on the outbreak of war at once enlisted; he proceeded with his battn. to France 4 Nov., and was mortally wounded with four others in the early morning of 5 Dec. by shrapnel, which burst on the parapet of the trench. He died the same day at No. 2 Clearing Hospital, Bailleul, being buried in the cemetery there (No. 149); _unm._
=BRADLEY, REGINALD JOHN=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./17049, H.M.S. Hawke; lost in action in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914.