Private Alfred Brady

Army Number: 3985

Battalion : 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Brampton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Son of William and Mary Brady, of 12, Shaws Row, Brampton. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting on 22nd February 1915 at Chesterfield. He went to France on 4th March 1916 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Alfred Brady is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Thomas the Apostles Church War Memorial, Brampton, Derbyshire.

His brother Private James Brady 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.