Second Lieutenant William Robert Bradshaw

Regiment: Royal Munster Fusiliers
Date published: 01/06/1917
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 19/02/1917
Age at death: 34
Cemetery: Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Plot: G. 11.
Information: Second Lieutenant William Robert Bradshaw, Royal Munster Fusiliers, was the second son of Sir. G.T.M. Bradshaw, of Ballymoney, Co. Antrim. Soon after the outbreak of hostilities he enlisted as a private in the Royal Munster Fusiliers. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant, and while on service in France he was appointed to a commission in the Connaught Rangers. On completing his period of training he joined his battalion on the Western front, and at the end of six months' service he came home on leave. He rejoined his unit when his leave expired, and was killed in action four days later on the 19th February, 1917.