Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

25/09/1916

Date of Discharge

31/01/1919

Place of Enlistment

Sydney NSW

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Tuggeranong (also spelt as Tuggranong) ACT

Address (at enlistment)

Tuggeranong ACT

School(s) Attended

Tuggranong (Tuggeranong) School

Occupation

Labourer

Next of Kin

David Grady (father), Tuggeranong ACT

Service Number

2894

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

5 Machine Gun Battalion AIF

Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW

Grady arrived in France in March 1917 with reinforcements for the 60th Battalion and served at the Second Battle of Bullecourt (in May 1917) and Polygon Wood (in Belgium in September 1917) before developing trench feet near Villers-Bretonneux in April 1918. He was transferred to the 5th Machine Gun Battalion upon returning to France in September 1918 and was discharged on 5 July 1919. Grady died on 10 July 1972 in Sydney. He was the brother of James Grady and a cousin of William and John Grady.

Description - height 5 feet 7½ inches, weight 144 pounds, chest 32½ inches, fair complexion, light brown hair, blue eyes, Catholic, scar on outer side of left calf, mole on back left shoulder blade, scar on left breast.

Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
Our Queanbeyan 'Boys' No.4, Howard & Shearsby, Yass (postcard)
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Queanbeyan Age - 9 September 1919, 16 September 1919
Queanbeyan/ Canberra Advocate - 26 October 1916
Sydney Morning Herald - 11 July 1972