James Bottomley Bradley, MBE (17 June 1911 – 19 May 2003) was born in Stalybridge, Cheshire.
[1] He received his formal education at Arnold House, Llandulas followed by Oundle and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he read engineering.
He subsequently, after months of mistreatment and taking part in forced marches that few survived and working on the building of the Burma–Thailand railway, took part in a remarkable escape from a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in 1943.
He and four others were the only PoWs to survive an escape attempt in Thailand during the Second World War.
After the war, unable to continue as an engineer, he became a farmer near Petworth, West Sussex.