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Lance Corporal James Brady, Yorks and Lancs Regiment, number 203455 was born in Beverley in 1897, he was the only son of Mark and Catherine Brady. Mark and Catherine, known as Kate, were born in Athy, Dublin. In 1901 Mark, Kate, James and his sister Mary Ann were living at Barton on Humber, Lincolnshire, where Mark was as a brickyard labourer. A further sister Evelyn was born in 1902 before Mark died. The family were living in Beverley by 1911 and James aged 14 was employed as an apprentice bricklayer by Pape and Sons.
James enlisted in 1914 in the East Yorksshire Regiment but was transferred to the Yorks and Lancs. He was wounded and gassed in 1917 before meeting his death on 10 Oct 1917 at the Battle of Poelcapelle. Details of his death and letters sent to his mother from his officers, these were published in the Beverley Guardian in Oct 1917. The war diaries of the Yorks and Lancs also give graphic accounts of the conditions at Paschendaelle in 1917. James is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing in Belgium, on the Beverley War Memorial in Hengate and on the East Yorkshire Memorial in Beverley Minster. He was awarded the Victory Medal and British war Medal.
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