In addition to the Medal of Honor, he was promoted to the warrant officer rank of Gunner on June 27, 1898. His first assignment at the new rank was on the armored cruiser USS New York (ACR-2). Then, he was transferred to Naval Torpedo Station in Newport, Rhode Island, on 21 November 1900.
His old ship, the USS Winslow, on which he won his Medal of Honor, was stationed there from 1901 to 1904, so it is likely he was back on his old ship.
Sadly, he committed suicide while serving on the USS Monongahela at the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine, on November 6, 1903. He stated shortly before his suicide that "the pain was unbearable", but it is unclear if his pain was physical or emotional.
He was buried in the Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island, where his wife and children lived. As his tombstone did not indicate that he had received the Medal of Honor, this fact was not discovered until January 20 when Charles Mogayzel of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, was able to find Brady's gravesite.
Representatives of the U.S. Navy and local veterans organizations dedicated a Medal of Honor grave marker on Brady's grave on Memorial Day later that year.
His name in records pertaining to the Medal of Honor list his name as "George F. Brady" and the name on his tombstone is "George P. Brady." The reason for this discrepancy is probably that his name was mis-transcribed when his Medal of Honor citation was written.
--Cooter
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