Born at Stanton, near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, and christened in St. Mary's Church at Barton Mills on the 6th of January 1833, the son of William Bradley and his wife, Ann, (nee Lydle.)
Enlisted at Ipswich on the 13th of October 1852.
Age: 18 years 2 months.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Brick-layer.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Blue eyes. Fair hair.
At Varna on the 20th of September 1854, but no date is shown as to when he rejoined the regiment in the Crimea proper.
Wounded in the Charge at Balaclava.
Sent to Scutari on the 26th of October 1854 and invalided to England on the 7th of December.
Sent from the Invalid Depot at Chatham to Ipswich on the 30th of June, "on furlo, till discharge."
Finally discharged from Chatham Invalid Depot on the 30th of October 1855.
"Disabled by partial contraction of the left elbow after gun-shot wound of the left arm received at Balaclava."
Aged 21 years 3 months on discharge.
Conduct: "good". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.
Served 2 years 34 days.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Balaclava and Sebastopol.
His name appeared in the 1877 list of members of the Balaclava Commemoration Society but not in the 1879 revised list.
Some confusion arises here as an "Edward Bradley" is shown in WO/23/52 at the Public Record Office as drawing a pension of 9d. per day from the 30th of October 1855 and dying in the Ipswich District on the 5th of February 1856.
This is borne out by the Somerset House records which record the death of an "Edward Bradley" in the January-March Quarter of 1856. No age is shown as this was before the age of a deceased person was recorded.
The date of his death is confirmed (5 of February 1856) from the Pension Books of the Ipswich District in that they show him as being paid a pension of 9d. per day, payable from the 27th of November 1855, and dying on the date known, aged 21 years.
From the records of Ipswich Cemetery he was buried there in Grave No. H-11-61. He was brought from Fitzroy Street, Ipswich, but had died in the East Suffolk Hospital at Ipswich. The grave is a common one, and no memorial stone was erected.