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  Spirits of Gallipoli - Edgar BRADY BRADY, Edgar Vernon

 

Spirits of Gallipoli - Edgar BRADY

Spirits of Gallipoli - Edgar BRADY
Unit 10th Light Horse Regiment, 2nd Reinforcements Rank Trooper
Date of Enlistment 4 January 1915 Service no. 709
Date of Death 7 August 1915 Place of Death The Nek - Walker's Ridge
Age 33    
Cemetery Lone Pine Memorial Details Panel 10
Epitaph -
Next of Kin (Wife) BRADY Harriet Rose Address 87 North Beach Rd, Leederville WA
Parents Edward Foster and Harriett Ann Brady (nee White) Address 562 Hay St, Perth WA
Date of Birth 31 May 1882 Place of birth SA Kooringa, Burra
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)

Other Sources

     
  Photo Spirits of Gallipoli - Photo   Australian War Memorial, H06590, (source 7)
Spirits of Gallipoli - Photo   Photo Spirits of Gallipoli - Photo   The Sunday Times, WA Newspaper, 19 September 1915, page 26 (source 35)
Spirits of Gallipoli - News   Newspaper article Spirits of Gallipoli - News   The Western Mail Newspaper, 3 September 1915, page 31 (source 52)
Spirits of Gallipoli - Family Details   Family details Spirits of Gallipoli - Family Details   Spirits of Gallipoli
Spirits of Gallipoli - Headstone   Headstone Spirits of Gallipoli - Headstone   Gallipoli Photographic Expedition, 2009 (source 183)
Spirits of Gallipoli - Notes   Notes Spirits of Gallipoli - Notes   NAA, Boer War records, Barcode no 678524 (source 8)
Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   Various Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   10th ALH War Memorial, Perth, WA (source 14)
Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   Various Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   10th ALH War Memorial, Perth, WA (source 14)
Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   Various Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   10th ALH War Memorial, Perth, WA (source 14)
Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   Various Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   10th ALH War Memorial, Perth, WA (source 14)
Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   Various Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   King's Park Avenue of Honour, Perth WA (source 146)
Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   Various Spirits of Gallipoli - Various   Australian War Memorial, ACT, Panel 7 (source 14)

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