BRADLEY, Benjamin William Campbell, Private, 44th Battalion

Rank: Private

Regimental Number: 3015

Place of Birth: Fremantle, Western Australia

Address: 1 Silas St(WW1), East Fremantle, Western Australia

Next of Kin: Father, Benjamin Bradley

Enlistment Date: 4 October 1916

Unit Name: 44th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement/ 5th Machine Gun Battalion

Age embarkation: 18

Marital Status: Single

Occupation: Carpenter's apprentice

Date of Death: 25 September 1917

Place of Burial: No known grave


History

Corporal BENJAMIN WILLIAM CAMPBELL BRADLEY

His brother, Corporal Benjamin William Campbell Bradley (3015), of the 44th Battalion, was also born and educated at Fremantle. He enlisted in September, 1916, at Wyndham, and sailed on 29th January, 1917, for England, and on completion of his training crossed to France. He made the supreme sacrifice at Passchendaele on 25th September, 1917.

Australia’s Fighting Sons of the Empire

“The above soldiers are sons of Benjamin and Alice Bradley, of Silas-Street, East Fremantle”

ANGWIN, Benjamin, Second Lieutenant, 28th Battalion

Rank: Second Lieutenant

Service Number: -

Place of Birth: Egremont, Cumberland, England

Address: 83 Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle

Next of Kin: Mrs Maude Evelyn Angwin

Enlistment Date: 29 September 1915

Unit Name: 28th Battalion

Age at Embarkation: 29

Marital Status: Married

Occupation: Clerk

Returned: 13 February 1917

Date of Death: 5 December 1919

Place of Burial: Fremantle Cemetery (Portion Methodist, Grave No. 65), Western Australia