Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Bookood, 19 Dec. 1914, and was buried near Somerset House there; _unm._ One of Capt. Bradshaw's men wrote: "His death is much regretted by the whole company, because they could always trust him. He would never send his men where he would not go himself. He was an exceptionally brave man, and knew his work, and it will be very difficult to find his equal." [Illustration: =Frank Seymour Bradshaw.=] =BRADSHAW, GEORGE RAMSON=, Stoker, 1st Class, E. 12797 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRADSHAW, MATTHEW=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./12547, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRADY, EDMUND=, L.-Corpl., No. 9118, 2nd Battn. The Royal Scots, 3rd _s._ of Patrick Brady, of 102, Waterloo Street, Crumpsall, Manchester, Labourer, by his wife, Anne; _b._ Miles Platting, Manchester, 2 Sept. 1881; educ. St. Edmund's R.C. School there; enlisted 9 Dec. 1904, and served eight years in India, winning a silver spoon for shooting. An attendant at the Crumpsall Workhouse when war was declared, he was called up, and was killed instantaneously in action, during the advance at Loos, 25 Sept. 1915, being struck in the forehead by a bullet; _unm._ =BRAIK, JOHN=, Sergt., No. 22961, 12th, later 4th, Battn. Canadian Expeditionary Force, _s._ of the late Adam Braik, of Kemnay, co. Aberdeen, Mill Owner, by his wife, Helen, dau. of John Ingram; _b._ Garthy, co. Aberdeen, 5 Oct. 1868; educ. Kemnay Public School, and was a mill owner. He joined the 4th Volunteer Battn. of the Gordon Highlanders in 1880, and obtained a commission in the same in 1896. On the outbreak of the South African War he enlisted as a Private in the 2nd Scottish Horse and served through the latter part of that campaign, receiving the medal. He was subsequently attached to the R.G.A. as Instructor of Military Signalling, and was shooting in the wilds of British Columbia when the European War began. He immediately hastened several hundred miles through the North-West to the nearest recruiting office and volunteered for service. He was offered a commission in the second contingent, but declined to wait, and was one of the last recruits entered for the first contingent, and came over with them in Oct., crossing to France in Feb. He subsequently returned to England to convey machine guns to the Front, and was given charge of one on his return. He was seriously wounded 18 June, 1915, by a shrapnel shell which burst above his gun, and was invalided to England, where he died in the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, 5 Aug. following. He was buried in Heroes Corner, Greenwich Cemetery. [Illustration: =John Braik.=] =BRAITHWAITE, JOSEPH=, Stoker (Native), H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BRAMALL, HORACE=, Acting E.R.A., 4th Class, M. 7357, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRAMLEY, HAROLD=, 2nd Lieut., 2/5th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (T.F.), previously L.-Corpl. (C Squad.) Leicestershire Yeomanry, 2nd _s._ of the Rev. Cyril Richard Bramley, M.A. (Oxon.), Vicar of St. John's, Donisthorpe with Moira (St. Hilda); _b._ Manchester, 9 Feb. 1894; educ. St. John's School, Leatherhead, 1904; devoted himself to farming, and after a two years' course on a farm in Snarestone, went to Canada for nine months to see the conditions of farming there; returning in Dec. 1913, he went to Kidlington, near Oxford, to take charge of a farm, but on the outbreak of war immediately rejoined the Leicestershire Yeomanry (in which he had been 1911-12); went with them to the Front in Nov. 1914, was in several engagements, being promoted L.-Corpl. Feb. 1915, and 2nd Lieut. a week before he was killed in action near Ypres, 13 May, 1915; _unm._ =BRAND, ERNEST STANLEY=, Capt., Royal Fusiliers, attd. West African Rifles, _s._ of William Burmann Brand, of 19, Linzee Road, Hornsey, N.; _b._ Stoke Newington, 3 Dec. 1878; educ. Charterhouse; received his commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 3rd Battn. Royal Fusiliers from the Militia, 4 Jan. 1899, and was promoted Lieut. 27 Jan. 1900, and Capt. 19 Oct. 1904. He was seconded for service with the Chinese Regt. at Wei-hai-Wei from 20 April, 1901, to 19 April, 1906; was employed with the West African Regt. from 14 July, 1906, to Dec. 1910, and again from 19 Sept. 1912. On the outbreak of the European War he was ordered to the Cameroons and was acting second in command when killed in action during the fighting around Jabassi on 8 Oct. 1914; _unm._ He was buried at Dibandi. A picture of the cross erected to his memory appeared in the Sketch for 5 June, 1915. Capt. Brand was a clever Chinese linguist. =BRANDON, JOHN COOPER=, 340733, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRANTINGHAM, GEORGE=, E.R.A., 1st Class, 155692 (Ports.), H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BRASH, PRENTISE STEPHEN=, Petty Officer, 180365, H.M.S. Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914. =BRASHAW, JOSEPH ARTHUR=, Capt., 16th Battn. Australian Imperial Force, 3rd _s._ of Harry Brashaw, of Perth and Dudley House Farm, Kwelkam, Kununoppin, West Australia, by his wife, Sebra, dau. of John White, of Coventry, and nephew of Joseph White, of The Woodlands, Cowper Road, Bournemouth; _b._ Woalingham, New South Wales, 1891; educ. Bunbury, West Australia; joined the forces as a cadet when 17 years of age, and was later transferred to the Militia. He worked his way up through the ranks and received his lieutenancy in 1913. On the outbreak of war he volunteered for Imperial Service, and was sent to Melbourne to assist in training the New Forces. Here he contracted typhoid fever, and returned to West Australia, leaving for the front in charge of reinforcements for the 16th Battn. He arrived in time to take part in the historic landing at the Dardanelles on 25 April, 1915, and was subsequently wounded during the heavy fighting on 17 May. When convalescent he was given the opportunity of being invalided to England as his foot had not fully recovered, but pleaded to be allowed to rejoin his unit, and returned to duty on 17 July, being gazetted Capt. on the 29th. Nine days later, on 7 Aug. 1915, he was killed in action at Suvla Bay; _unm._ [Illustration: =Joseph Arthur Brashaw.=] =BRASHIER, WILLIAM=, Private, No. 2436, D Coy., 1/7th Battn. Durham L.I., 2nd _s._ of James Brashier, by his wife, Sarah, dau. of Hugh McKee; _b._ Durham, 20 Jan. 1895; educ. there; enlisted after the outbreak of the war, and died in hospital at Boulogne, 14 May, 1915, of wounds received in action; _unm._ =BRASIER, LEONARD GEORGE=, Petty Officer, 2nd Class (R.F.R., B. 2406), 219840, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BRASS, WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 6/807, South Canterbury Battn., New Zealand Expeditionary Force, _s._ of James Gilles Brass, of Kirkwall, Farmer, by his wife Isabella |