BRADLEY, William Charles

William was born on the 17th of September 1876 in Wellow, Yarmouth to Charles & Jane (nee THOMAS) BRADLEY who had both predeceased William. He had four brothers & five sisters. On the 12th of October 1901 William married Frances MOORMAN who was living at Mark’s Corner in Newport around the time of William’s death. They had four children & before the War William was a Road Foreman.

William had received a gun-shot wound to the head in France & was being treated at St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington in London when he died, age 40, of his injuries on the 18th of July 1917. William is buried in Northwood Cemetery in Cowes on the Isle of Wight beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription, chosen by his wife Frances, “FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH”.

William is also remembered on the Carisbrooke & Northwood War Memorials.