Hi,
I am trying to help a friend with her Fam Tree and she has a Leonard Robert BRADLEY b 1876 in Islington.
He apparently died on a ship details below in 1917 and the details were found on a website called Remember the Fallen. This answer states that he was in the Army but was a member of the Nigerian Civil Service. It gives details of his marriage to Gertrude FROGGATT.
If he was in the Army as this seems to suggest, why can I not find any details on the CWGC etc
Thanks you Tom
BRADLEY Leonard Robert
First Name(s):
Leonard
Robert
Surname:
BRADLEY
Service Number:
L0
Rank:
Unknown
Conflict:
WW1
Service:
Army
Former Units:
None
Date of Death:
Unknown
Age At Death:
Place of Death:
Unknown
Place of Burial:
Unknown
Place of Birth:
Unknown
Home Town:
Unknown
Casualty's Relatives:
Unknown
Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget
BRADLEY Leonard Robert Is Named On These Memorials
Eastham St Peter and St Paul’s Church Bradley Memorial
Further Information About BRADLEY Leonard Robert
The marriage of Lennard R Bradley to Gertrude E. Froggatt/Froggett is registered in the December Quarter 1915 under the Tenbury Registration District.
SS Umgeni left the Clyde in convoy on 7th November 1917 bound for Lagos. The convoy ran into bad weather and the ships became separated. SS Umgeni was never seen again but bodies and wreckage from the ship were washed up along the West coast of Ireland, the victims being recorded as drowned on 9th November 1917.
The inscription on the memorial reads:
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
LENNARD ROBERT BRADLEY
NIGERIAN CIVIL SERVICE
WHO WAS LOST AT SEA WITH ALL ON BOARD
THE S.S. UMGENI NOVEMBER 1917
AGED 41 YEARS
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY HIS WIDOW
