Lives of the First World War

BERNARD THOMAS PADLEY was serving as a Rifleman with the 21st Battalion The Rifle Brigade when he died on 31st July 1916 aged 27. He had served for two and a half years with the Warwickshire Territorials before enlisting into the 9th Battalion, The King's Rifle Brigade on 26th August 1914 in Birmingham a but was discharged on 19th October 1914 having an overlapping toe which caused his feet to swell whilst marching. He tried again in Oxford and on 16th November 1914 and was embodied into the 4th (Reserve) Battalion, The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. On the 25th September 1915 he was transferred as a Rifleman to the 21st Midland Battalion, The Rifle Brigade. The Battalion embarked at Devonport on 30th December 1915 and disembarked at Alexandria on 14th January 1916 to join the Egyptian Expeditionary Force.

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