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Description: | Account written in 1972 for the Durham Light Infantry Museum by Colonel W D B Thompson, describing Bradford's service with the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry (18th Brigade, 6th Division) during the First World War, when he was one of four sons of a mining engineer in Durham who were known as "The Four Fighting Bradfords"; he joined the Regular Army in 1912 and by 1917 was the youngest Brigadier General in the British Army at the age of 25, being killed at the Battle of Cambrai on 30 November 1917.
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Catalogue date 1973-11-08 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Bradford, R B | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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