Next of kin plaque: Private Charles Frederick Henry 'Harry' Bradhurst, 18th Battalion, AIF

Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge. Beneath the main figures, the British lion defeats the German eagle. The initials 'ECP', for the designer Edward Carter Preston appear above the lion's right forepaw. A raised rectangle above the lion's head bears the name 'CHARLES HENRY BRADHURST'.

Born in Glenormiston, Victoria, Charles Frederick Henry 'Harry' Bradhurst was employed as an electrical engineer in Balmain, Sydney, New South Wales, when he volunteered for service with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force being sent to take German New Guinea, on 9 August 1914. Serving as 820 Private Harry Bradhurst, he formed part of the successful landing party at Rabaul and remained in New Guinea until June 1915, when he was invalided to Australia suffering from malaria.

In August 1915 Bradhurst enlisted in the AIF as Charles Henry Bradhurst. He was assigned the service number 2556 and posted a private to the 6th Reinforcements for 18th Battalion. The unit sailed from Sydney on 2 November, aboard HMAT A14 Euripides. In Egypt Bradhurst was taken on strength of his battalion on 5 February 1916. The battalion arrived in France for service on the Western Front on 23 March.

Bradhurst was killed at Pozieres, France, on 26 July while he was serving as one of the machine gunners attached to the battalion's B Company. A witness reported that he 'was blown up badly by a shell, while at the Gun, and [his completely mutilated body] buried in front of the trenches. He was 21 years old. Bradhurst's body was not recovered for formal burial in a war cemetery. His name is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.

This memorial plaque was sent to his father, Frank Symonds Bradhurst, in July 1922.