Career
Brading joined the Royal Naval Air Service on 12 June 1917, just a month past his eighteenth birthday. He trained in an operational squadron, 12 Naval, before being posted to 1 Naval in April 1918 as a Sopwith Camel pilot. On the 15th, Brading gained a second victory in similar fashion, teaming with Kinkead, Wallace, Charles Dawson Booker, Robert McLaughlin, Maxwell Findlay, James Henry Forman, and two other pilots to destroy an Albatros Doctorate.V to add to all their scores.
His fourth triumph came on 9 June, when he drove a Dallas–Fort Worth reconnaissance plane down out of control.
On 28 June, he became an ace by driving down another Albatros Doctorate.V. From there on, Brading"s wins were always over the best German fighter planes, Fokker Doctorate.VIIs and a Pfalz Doctorate.XII. The only curiosity among them was the last pilot downed plummeted to his death in one of the pioneering uses of a parachute. That was on 16 September 1918.
