Rev. David Youngson has submitted the following:
Charles Lord BRADLEY
Mercantile Marine
First Engineer SS Joshua Nicholson
He was born at Sunderland. His home address was 6 Brandling Terrace, North Shields, Northumberland. Whilst residing at Malta he was Initiated in Waller Rodwell Wright Lodge No 2755, Valletta, Malta on the 10th January 1916 at Malta, which transferred its meeting to Aldershot from 1985, following the Island achieving its independence, and there is no record of any further Advancement. He died on 18th March 1917 aged 33, the husband of Caroline Bradley (nee Robinson) of 22 Dunbar Street, Sunderland. He is Remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial, London.
The S.S. “Joshua Nicholson” (1853 grt) was built in 1880 by the Tyne Iron Shipbuilding Company Limited, Newcastle on Tyne for the Joshua Nicholson Steam Ship Company Limited. It was managed by Westcott and Laurance Limited, London (Ellerman). She was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 70 in the Atlantic Ocean off Wolf Rock, on a voyage from London to Alexandria, Egypt with general cargo. No warning was given and there were 26 casualties.
Charles Lord Bradley is remembered in Sunderland on S140.017 and in our List of Ships’ crews