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Unit |
10th Light Horse Regiment,
2nd Reinforcements |
Rank |
Trooper |
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Date of Enlistment |
4 January
1915 |
Service no. |
709 |
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Date of Death |
7 August 1915 |
Place of Death |
The Nek -
Walker's Ridge |
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Age |
33 |
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Cemetery |
Lone Pine Memorial |
Details |
Panel 10 |
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Epitaph |
- |
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Next of Kin |
(Wife)
BRADY Harriet Rose |
Address |
87 North
Beach Rd, Leederville WA |
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Parents |
Edward
Foster and Harriett Ann Brady (nee White) |
Address |
562 Hay
St, Perth WA |
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Date of Birth |
31 May
1882 |
Place of birth |
SA
Kooringa, Burra |
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General |
"Battles often begin in the dimness
before dawn, or in the evening at sunset. First light on 7 August was
to be the test for the Australians in the 8th, 9th and 10th Australian
Light Horse on Gallipoli. On that morning they were to make a
dismounted charge across the narrow no-man's-land which had separated
them and the Turks for the past twelve weeks. Most of the light
horsemen did not show alarm at the task they had been set. Among many
there was a nervous anticipation, for his was to be a demonstration of
their worth. They were aware that the infantrymen, who had got a tenuous
grip on the peninsula when they made their amphibious landing in late
April, were watching to see how well these more recently arrived troops,
supposedly Australia's elite, would acquit themselves.
Two hundred and thirty-four men were
killed, and about 140 wounded, in this short, sharp action. In the
trenches, from which they had begun only minutes earlier, there was
shock and chaos.
Dead and wounded were thick in
no-man's-land. For many death had been instantaneous. Others lay
wounded and isolated, with neither the strength nor opportunity to get
back."
Edgar Vernon Brady was one
of the members of the 10th Australian Light horse, who lost their lives
during the charge at The Nek.
BURNESS, Peter,
The Nek. The Tragic Charge of the Light horse at Gallipoli.
(source 5) |
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Other Sources |
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Photo |
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Australian War Memorial, H06590, (source 7) |
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Photo |
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The Sunday Times, WA Newspaper, 19 September 1915, page 26
(source 35) |
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Newspaper article |
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The
Western Mail Newspaper, 3 September 1915, page 31 (source
52) |
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Family details |
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Spirits of
Gallipoli |
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Headstone |
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Gallipoli Photographic Expedition, 2009 (source 183) |
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Notes |
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NAA, Boer War records, Barcode no 678524
(source 8) |
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Various |
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10th ALH War Memorial, Perth, WA (source 14) |
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Various |
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10th ALH War Memorial, Perth, WA (source 14) |
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Various |
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10th ALH War Memorial, Perth, WA (source 14) |
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Various |
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10th ALH War Memorial, Perth, WA (source 14) |
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Various |
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King's Park Avenue of Honour, Perth WA (source 146) |
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Various |
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Australian War Memorial, ACT, Panel 7 (source 14) |
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