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Company Sergeant Major Leslie Bradley, 1889-1979, p. 8

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Page 7 When Leslie returned to civilian life on the farm he found that Tom Longboat, the famous long distance Indian runner, who had enlisted in 1916, had also returned to Stewarttown, and he ran along beside Tom Longboat as he was training. Life changed on the day that Leslie had backed the wagon into the barn, and when the team suddenly bolted, he grabbed the reins, but the horses kept going and his head was smashed between the wagon rack and the beam of the doorway. He was not likely to survive, but his younger sister Lottie, who was a registered nurse, left her private nursing below Hamilton, and came to nurse him back to health His son, Don Bradley said that wasn't the only time his Dad's sister had stepped in. While working in Toronto at a place where he handled hot steel; a piece of hot metal fell on his leg and the doctor said it should be amputated. His sister refused to let this happen, and used poultice after poultice as she nursed him, and he recovered. in Toronto and they would go to the hockey games. They were second cousins and the families weren't in favour of them getting married. After the war the two were married and lived in Tottenham. When Rob was in hospital, she knew he didn't have very long to live and she brought him home and stayed at his side. (All four mentioned here, Leslie, Emery, Lottie and Roy all grew up on the same farm.) Leslie married Jean Wilson of Hagersville in 1924 and for many years they operated Bradley"s General Store at Postville at the junction of Dundas and Trafalgar Rd.. He was also the post master. It was tough going during the depression. The previous owner tried to get the property back, but Leslie was able to borrow money from the McClary sisters to pay the mortgage. Charlotte Bradley R.N Lottie was nursing in Cleveland, but during WWII, she quit her job and volunteered to go to nurse in London while the Nazis were dropping bombs trying to destroy the city. Her nephew, a dispatch rider in the army, Lance Corporal Roy D. Bradley decided to look up his aunt while on leave. She told him of the times she would come up to Toronto from Cleveland and meet Rob Magloughlen of Tottenham, He didn't talk about the war, but when familiar veterans walked in the door Leslie brought out the 164th Battalian book and they would reminisce Leslie retired to Orrillia. He died in Orrillia July 2, 1979. He is buried at St. Stephens Anglican Church Cemetery

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