Education
Brade was educated at Bradfield College in the small village of Bradfield in Berkshire.
Brade was educated at Bradfield College in the small village of Bradfield in Berkshire.
He entered the War Office as Clerk of the Higher Division of the Civil Service in 1884. He was a Private Secretary between 1892 and 1896, first to Lord Sandhurst and Lord Monkswell when they were Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War, and then to Joseph Powell Williams when he was Financial Secretary to the War Office. Between 1901 and 1914, Brade was a Secretary of the Army Council and Assistant Secretary of the War Office.
He was the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War from 1914 to 1920.
Order of the Bath (United Kingdom) Knight Grand Cross (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, 1919) Knight Commander (Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, 1914 Companion (Central Bank, 1906) King George V Coronation Medal (United Kingdom) Knight (Chevalier) of the Legion of Honour (Légion d"honneur, France) Knight (Chevalier) of the Order of the Crown (Ordre de la Couronne, Belgium).
