BORN HULL 1897. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF MRS M BRACE. BROTHER OF GEORGE, WILLIAM & ANNIE. ST BARNABAS BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE. 1918 ABSENT VOTERS.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JOHN CHADWICK BRACE 27010. Born in July 1897, John was the third of four children to Alfred and Malohla Brace of 9 Clairbrook Avenue, Eton Street, Hessle Road, Hull. A Machinist by trade, he enlisted on 12th February 1916 and after training in the UK arrived in France on 22nd December joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment. He lived through the bloodbath at Oppy Wood when so many of his comrades fell to the machine guns and high explosive, and as the remains of the battalion crawled back to their trenches having waited for the cover of darkness, he will no longer have been under any illusions as to what war meant. John was killed in action on 28th March 1918 during the German Spring Offensive, when all looked lost and the army was in full retreat. His body was never recovered and his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial; he was 19 years old.
Brace, John Chadwick
First name:
JOHN CHADWICK
Military Number:
27010
Rank:
Private
Date Died
28/03/1918
Place died:
Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
19
