Lives of the First World War

On the 31st July 1916 he was part of D Company escorting No 3 armoured train when he accidentally drowned whilst bathing in an allotted bathing place in a canal. A Court of Enquiry was held and statements read from the four men bathing with him. They all said he threw up his arms and sunk into the water without a cry before they could reach him, and that he was a strong swimmer. His body was recovered from the canal later and he is buried in Kantara War Memorial Cemetery. He was the son, one of nine children, of John and Annie Padley of 30, Worcester Road, Chipping Norton, the son of John and Anne Padbury and worked as a spinner and a porter before the war.

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