Ernest
Bradford
Bragg
Born in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
Father of
Mary Marrs
Died
at about age 54
in Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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| Created 16 Apr 2018
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Biography
Ernest Bragg is an Anzac who served in World War One.
Ernest Bragg was born in the Colony of Victoria (1851-1900)
Ernest was a Roman Catholic
Ernest was born in 1897. Father Edward Bragg and mother Margaret Sellick. [1]
On 24 October 1916 Ernest lived at 45 Otter St, Collingwood, Victoria. Age 19, single and a coachsmith.
Mary Marrs, aged 16 and Ernest Bradford Bragg, aged 19, had a daughter Mary Marrs in September 1916. The subsequent Court case was in October 1916. [2]
On 27 October 1916 Ernest, an unmarried Roman Catholic Coachbuilder aged 19, enlisted into the Australia Army (A.I.F.) April 1917 Reinforcements at Melbourne, Victoria. His father was deceased and his widowed mother Margaret lived at 45 Otter Street, Collingwood, Victoria. He served as a Driver, Regimental number 18376, with the 14th Field Company Engineers. Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A28 Miltiades on 2 August 1917, He returned to Australia on 1 August 1919. [3]
Ernest Bragg married Eileen Margaret Fennessy in Victoria in 1921. [4]
In 1922 Ernest was a railway employee living with Eileen Margaret Bragg in Tuaggra St, Maryborough, Victoria.
In 1931 Ernest was a Linesman living with Eileen Margaret Bragg at 262 Wellington St, Collingwood, Yarra, Victoria.
He passed away in 1951, aged 54 [5] and was buried at the Boroondara General Cemetery,
- BRAGG. — On October 1. at Repatriation Hospital Heidelberg, Ernest Bedford, dearly beloved husband of Eileen, and loving father of Sheila (deceased) and June . . . . [6]
Sources
- ↑ Victoria, Australia Birth Registration Number 10252/1897
- ↑ Preston Leader, 7 October 1916
- ↑ Australia, WWI Service Records, 1914-1920
- ↑ Victoria, Australia Marriage Registration Number 7981/1921
- ↑ Victoria, Australia Death Registration Number 12043/1951
- ↑ The Age Funeral Notice 2 October 1951
- Ancestry Family Trees
- Australian Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980
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