Matthew Joseph BRADY

BRADY, Matthew Joseph

Service Number: 1990
Enlisted: 14 December 1916, 8 years volunteer Irish Rifles
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 5th Light Horse Field Ambulance
Born: Balmain, New South Wales, Australia, 8 January 1883
Home Town: Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 24 February 1927, aged 44 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW
CATHOLIC 1-19. 74.
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14 Dec 1916: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1990, Camel Corps, 8 years volunteer Irish Rifles
3 Feb 1917: Involvement Private, 1990, Camel Corps, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Karmala embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: ''
3 Feb 1917: Embarked Private, 1990, Camel Corps, RMS Karmala, Sydney
5 Apr 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1990, 5th Light Horse Field Ambulance, 2nd MD - medically unfit severe syncopal attack (medical term for fainting or passing out)

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
 
Another Forgotten Digger of The Great War now resting peacefully at Sandgate Cemetery (that is, honour and dignity restored).

“I Once was Lost but Now am Found”.

94 years ago today, on the Saturday afternoon of the 26th February 1927, Private Matthew Joseph Brady, 5th Australian Light Horse Field Ambulance (Reg No-1990), wharf labourer from 54 Henry Street, Tighes Hill, New South Wales and Young Street, Carrington, N.S.W. and 66 off Bolton Street, Newcastle, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 44. CATHOLIC 1-19. 74.

Born at Balmain, New South Wales on the 8th January 1883 to Thomas Joseph and Mary Ann Brady nee Dowling; husband of Marian or Mary (Millie J) Brady nee Ritchie (married 1912, Hillston, N.S.W., died 1949?), Matthew enlisted December 1916 with the Camel Corps, May 1916 to August 1917 Reinforcements at Newcastle, N.S.W.

Admitted to hospital 6.3.1918 suffering from severe syncopal attack (medical term for fainting or passing out), Matthew was invalided home March 1919, being discharged medically unfit on the 5th April 1919.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162566980 - not able to attend welcome home.

Mr Brady’s name has not been inscribed on the Newcastle Wharf Labourers' Union Roll of Honor or any known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.

Upon locating Matthew resting in an unmarked grave August 2015, now long forgotten, I placed a cross on the gravesite, taken a photo of the grave and uploaded the photo onto the Northern Cemetery website as a permanent record of his service.

An application for a Commonwealth War Graves Plaque, curbing and marble chip submitted February 2019, and was accepted March 2019, completed July 2019.

Lest We Forget.

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