James Anthony Brady

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 m 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