Commemorated: | |||
| 1. Memorial: | Brown's Copse Cemetery, Roeux | II. A. 1. | |
| 2. Book: | The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918 | Pg.123 | |
| 3. Memorial: | The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour | 40D GQS | |
Awards & Titles: | Mentioned in Despatches | ||
Family :
See also Longford at War.Edgar was born 18 August 1883 in Longford, Ireland; he was a son of William John Grady who was serving as a Quartermaster Serjeant in the 6th Rifle Brigade at the time, and Mary Ellen Grady. By 1885, however, the family were living in England and were in Woolwich at the time of the 1891 Census and had settled in Aldershot by 1901, where William was working as a financial clerk. Edgar went to school in Bloomfield Road School, Greenwich. In 1901 Edgar was working as a printer manager's clerk. He remained in the print industry and by 1911 he was working as a printing works manager.
Service Life:
Campaigns:
- The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.
| Unit / Ship / Est.: 4/South African Infantry A Coy |
| Action : The Arras Offensive and associated actions |
9 April - 16 June 1917. The Arras Offensive consisted of a series of linked attacks starting with the Anglo Canadian assault on the dominant Vimy Ridge feature through the battles in the Scarpe River valley and up to the assaults on the Hindenburg line in the summer of 1917.
Detail :
Prior to the Great War Grady served with Cape Colony Defence Force. Intitially he would have fought against Germany in German South West Africa and later in Egypt. During WW1 Captain Grady served with the South African 4th Infantry, which comprised South African Scottish raised from the Transvaal Scottish and Cape Town Highlanders. Captain Grady embarked for the Great War in France on the S.S. Balmoral Castle in May 1915; he was wounded twice, and had served at the Battle of Delville Wood; sadly he was killed in action during the First Battle of the Scarpe, part of the Battle of Arras, during the disastrous attack of the 9th (Scottish) Division on the German positions in east of Fampoux, during which his regiment lost 6 officers and 200 men. Grady was Mentioned in Despatches in December 1917.
See also Delville Wood.
He is commemorated in The Sphere 9th June 1917, where his portrait image can be found.
His name is listed in Visiting the Fallen under the chapter Arras North - "Captain Ernest Edgar Daniel GRADY, 'A' Compnay, 4th South Afrinan Regiment, had also served in German South-West Africa in 1914, and then in Egypt, before coming to the Western Front. Another veteran of the German South-West Africa campaign was Private James Chalmers EDMOND, 'A' Company, 2nd South African Regiment. According to the CWGC register, he had served there with the South African Irish Horse and had also seen action in the Boer Rebellion. GRADY had previously been mentioned in despatches and had been wounded at Delville Wood on 19 July 1916. Both men had Irish connections; GRADY was born at Longford in Ireland (Plot II.A.1) and EDMOND had parents who came from Belfast (Plot II.E.15)."
Masonic :
| Type | Lodge Name and No. | Province/District : |
|---|---|---|
| Mother : | Metropolitan No. 2538 E.C. | South Africa (Western) |
Initiated | Passed | Raised |
2nd November 1911 | 4th January 1912 | 1st February 1912 |
Source :
The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:
- The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- The (UK) National Archives
- Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
- ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry
Additional Source:
- Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
- Researcher : Bruce Littley