{"id":7269,"date":"2025-04-25T07:48:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=7269"},"modified":"2025-04-25T07:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:48:04","slug":"bradock-j-m-l-cpl-53521-2nd-welsh-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/bradock-j-m-l-cpl-53521-2nd-welsh-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradock J M L\/Cpl 53521 2nd Welsh Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRADOCK, JOHN MILWARD, L.-Corpl., No. 53521, 2nd Battn. (69th Foot) The Welch Regt., s. of John Milward Bradock; b. Moss Side, Manchester, 4 Sept. 1892; educ. St. Margaret&#8217;s School, Whalley Range, and Fielden Demonstration School, Manchester; enlisted 1 April, 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action near Flers 14 Dec. 1916. Buried one mile north-west of Flers. Capt. W. J. Weeks wrote: &#8220;A shell burst near his party, killing him instantaneously, and wounding several. On behalf of the N.C.O.&#8217;s and men of my company, I tender my sincere sympathy in your sad bereavement. He was a good lad, a splendid soldier, and had a cheery word and smile for all. I have lost one who would have made a splendid non-commissioned officer, with every prospect of speedy advancement.&#8221; Unm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRADOCK, JOHN MILWARD, L.-Corpl., No. 53521, 2nd Battn. (69th Foot) The Welch Regt., s. of John Milward Bradock; b. Moss Side, Manchester, 4 Sept. 1892; educ. St. Margaret&#8217;s School, Whalley Range, and Fielden Demonstration School, Manchester; enlisted 1 April, 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welsh-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7270,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions\/7270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}