Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

27/07/1915

Date of Discharge

29/03/1917

Place of Enlistment

Liverpool NSW

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Yarralumla ACT

Address (at enlistment)

Pilliga NSW (previously Yarralumla ACT)

Occupation

Grazier

Next of Kin

Ellen McNamara (sister), Pilliga NSW

Service Number

7380

Final Rank

Bombadier

Final Unit

5 Field Artillery Brigade AIF

John Grady was the brother of William Grady, half brother of Michael and Tim McMahon and cousin of James and David Grady. His father, who farmed in the Weston Creek area, died in 1888 when he was hit by the Cooma Mail train at the Woden crossing. Grady served as a Bombadier with the 14th Battery of the 5th Field Artillery Brigade (part of the 2nd Division artillery) but was wounded near Pozières; a gun shot wound which fractured his left forearm and smaller wounders to the right forearm and left thigh. After treatment in England, where shrapnel was removed from his arm, he returned to Australia in October 1916 and visited his mother at Michelago. He married Ann Taylor of Bellevue Hill in Sydney but was disowned by his family because the wedding was not in a Catholic church. He died in Sydney on 15 March 1942 and was interred in Woronora Cemetery.

Description - height 5 feet 8½ inches, weight 146 pounds, chest 33-36 inches, fair complexion, grey eyes, dark hair, Catholic.

Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan: from the district to the Australian Capital Territory 1820-1930. Heraldry & Genealogy Society of Canberra Inc., 2001
Valerie Bofinger, 'Ryan: from Moycarkey, Tipperary to Mulligans Flat NSW', 1999 (p.104)
Queanbeyan Age - 10 November 1916
Sydney Morning Herald - 16 March 1942