Our Boy: Newburyport's First WWI Casualty Finds His Way Home

Our Boy: Newburyport's First WWI Casualty Finds His Way Home 

Bethany Groff Dorau first encountered Marine Corps Private Eben Bradbury in 2014, when a strange coincidence brought them together. They were neighbors, he had a wonderful shy smile, and they had a similar sense of humor. She learned his nickname, met his family, read his mail, and discovered that they were distant cousins. The catch to this love story? Eben has been dead for a century, killed on June 12, 1918, in the blood-soaked wheat fields of Belleau Wood in France. 

Follow the journey of Eben “Bunny” Bradbury from his doorstep on Bromfield Street to the battlefields of France, and how the love and support of his hometown, a century later, helped to bring the story of “our boy” to life.