Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

27/01/1916

Date of Discharge

19/09/1919

Place of Enlistment

Liverpool NSW

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Tuggeranong (also known as Tuggranong) ACT

Address (at enlistment)

Tuggeranong ACT

School(s) Attended

Tuggranong (Tuggeranong) School

Occupation

Farmer

Next of Kin

David Grady (father), Tuggeranong ACT

Service Number

2817

Final Rank

Trooper

Final Unit

14 Light Horse Regiment AIF

Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW

Grady was farming with his father at Tuggeranong when he enlisted on 27 January 1916. He embarked for Egypt with the 7th Light Horse Regiment but transferred to the Camel Corps (later the 1st Anzac Battalion, Imperial Camel Brigade) in September. He was wounded at Rafa in January 1917 and, in July 1918, transferred to the 14th Light Horse Regiment. He returned to Australia the following year and was discharged on 19 September 1919.

After the war he obtained a soldier settler's block at Symonston as well as Block 39 in Belconnen (on the Molonglo River) in 1923. He lived in Queanbeyan until the 1930s before disposing of his lease to David Tully and moving to 'The Rivers', the property of his brother-in-law Aubrey Blewitt, near Mt. Stromlo. Grady appears to have lived there until his death on 19 March 1983. He was buried in the Queanbeyan Lawn Cemetery, Tharwa Road. He never married. Grady was the brother of David Grady and a cousin of William and John Grady.

Description - height 6 feet ¼ inches, weight 168 pounds, chest 33-38 inches, fair complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair, Catholic. Had slight stiffness of his right knee (varicocele), no civil convictions.

Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Queanbeyan Age - 21 July 1916, 9 September 1919, 16 September 1919
The Canberra Times - 15 July 1927, 21 March 1983
Susan Pfanner, 'Soldier Settlement Subdivisions in the FCT after World War 1', Canberra Historical Journal, Canberra & District Historical Society, March 1996
ArchivesACT Records : TL993 (Part 1B), Block 39 Belconnen