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Verney Bradder
Private 13932
2nd Bn., Lincolnshire Regiment
Verney Bradder died on Monday 3 May 1915, Age 34, and was buried in the RUE-PETILLON
MILITARY CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX, Pas de Calais, France.
He was born on 11th February 1876, on Forest Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. His parents were Charles Bradder and Jane (formerly Wakefield).
The 2nd Battalion, the Lincolnshire Regiment War Diaries, 1st April to 19th May 1915
3rd May 1915 8pm: Battalion was relieved by 1st Royal Irish Regiment and went into billets at Laventie station. On way out of trenches a machine gun traversing across Rue Masselot unfortunately caught some men of W and Y Companies, two being killed and three wounded. This was the first time the Battalion has suffered casualties during relief. Two killed, at 16 wounded. [8184 Pte George Tripp of Grimsby and 13932 Pte Vervey Bradder, a 34 year-old from Sutton in Ashfield, are buried in Rue Petillon Military Cemetery].
Notts Free Press - Sutton's Roll of Honour - 10th January 1919
Bradder, Private Verney, Lincoln Regiment
From ‘Soldiers who
died in the Great War 1914-19 – Lincolnshire
Regiment'
BRADDER
Verney. Born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts,
enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield. 2nd Bn., Lincolnshire
Regiment, Private 13932, Killed in
Action, France & Flanders, 3rd May 1915. Formerly 13669 Leics Regt.
Research by Heather Faulkes
War Diary entry used with permission from http://www.1914-1918.net/Diaries/diaries.htm,
the original of which is held at the PRO, in document WO95/1730