Shipwright 4th Class William James Leonard Bray (P/MX 63860) was born in Portsmouth on June 9th,1907. He was the first child of James Bray, a shipwright in H.M. Dockyard in Portsmouth, and his wife Maud (née Blockley), who died in 1916. In 1932, William married Nora L. Moppett, with whom he had two children.