Name
James Anthony Brady
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
20/09/1944
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
1888706
Royal Engineers
4 Bomb Disposal Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
N.W. Ext. Grave 411.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
SLEEP ON BELOVED YOUR WORK IS DONE GOD CALLED YOU EARLY TO WALK IN THE SUN
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
He was born in East London and at the time of enlistment was resident in London. He was a bomb disposal expert in No. 4 Bomb Disposal Company and was killed with seven others whilst trying to render an enemy mine harmless. He had been in a bomb disposal squad for five years and had joined up when he was 19 years of age. Due to his special skills he had not been posted abroad and was killed in the United Kingdom.
His Commonwealth War Graves Commission stone in Hitchin Cemetery where he lies buried in Grave 411 in the north-west extension, states that his Service Number was 1888706. The stone bears the additional inscription "Sleep on beloved your work is done. God called you early to walk in the sun”.
He originated from Silvertown in London and his wife, Nora Madeleine, was also a Londoner. They met in Hitchin and married in 1941. Their home was at 7, Hill Path, Hitchin and they bad a 9 month old daughter. He was the son of Alice Brady.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Paul Johnson - local historian, Herts Pictorial dated 3rd Oct 1944
