Norman Bradford
Personal information
Full name Alfred Norman Bradford
Date of birth (1894-08-17)17 August 1894
Place of birth Ascot Vale, Victoria
Date of death 4 August 1916(1916-08-04) (aged 21)
Place of death Pozières, France
Original team(s) Yarraville
Playing career1
Years Club Games (Goals)
1915 South Melbourne 7 (9)
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1915.
Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com

Alfred Norman Bradford (14 August 1894 – 4 August 1916) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League.

Family

Son of Alfred David Bradford (1858-1941),[1] and Margaret Mary Bradford (1865-1946), née Thompson,[2] Alfred Norman Bradford was born at Ascot Vale, Victoria on 14 August 1894.

Football

Recruited from Yarraville Football Club in the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA),[3] he played 7 senior games with South Melbourne in 1915.

His first match for the South Melbourne First XVIII was against St Kilda on 24 April 1915,[4] and his seventh and last match, prior to his enlistment was against Fitzroy on 24 July 1915.

Military service

He enlisted in the First AIF in July 1915;[5][6] and, leaving Australia on the HMAT Ulysses (A38) on 27 October 1915, he served overseas in the Australian Imperial Force as a Corporal in the 23rd Battalion of the Australian Infantry.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]

Death

Bradford was killed in action while in charge of a section of his battalion's bomb throwers, at Pozières, France, on 4 August 1916.[16][17][18]

His name is engraved on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, a memorial to all Australian soldiers who fought in France and Belgium during the First World War whose graves are not known.[19]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Deaths: Bradford, The Age, (Thursday, 3 April 1941), p.1.
  2. ↑ Deaths: Bradford, The Argus, (Tuesday, 21 May 1946), p.2.
  3. ↑ South Melbourne's New Men, The Age, (Tuesday, 20 April 1915), p.11.
  4. ↑ Football: League: St. Kilda v. South Melbourne, The Herald, (Saturday, 24 April 1915), p.3.
  5. ↑ The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 31 July 1915), p.2.
  6. ↑ The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 16 October 1915), p.2.
  7. ↑ Soldiers' Letters; Life Aboard a Transport, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 8 January 1916), p.2.
  8. ↑ From Private Norman Bradford, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 5 February 1916), p.3.
  9. ↑ From Private Norman Bradford, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 12 February 1916), p.2.
  10. ↑ Private W. (sic) Bradford, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 11 March 1916), p.2.
  11. ↑ Soldiers' Letters: Privates Norman Bradford and "Boxer" Milne, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 8 April 1916), p.2.
  12. ↑ Soldiers' Letters: Private Norman Bradford, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 22 April 1916), p.2.
  13. ↑ Private Norman Bradford, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 10 June 1916), p.2.
  14. ↑ Soldiers' Letters: Private Norman Bradford, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 29 July 1916), p.3.
  15. ↑ Soldiers' Letters: Corporal Norman Bradford, The (Emerald Hill) Record, (Saturday, 2 September 1916), p.3.
  16. ↑ Roll of Honor: Cpl. A. Norman Bradford, The (Footscray) Independent, (Saturday, 16 September 1916), p.2.
  17. ↑ Australian Casualties: 212th and 213th Lists Issued: Killed in Action: Victoria, The Argus, (Saturday, 16 September 1916), p.17.
  18. ↑ Deaths: On Active Service: Bradford—Rogers, The Age, (Saturday, 23 September 1916), p.7.
  19. ↑ Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

References

  • Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
  • Main, J. & Allen, D., "Bradford, Norman", pp. 23–25 in Main, J. & Allen, D., Fallen – The Ultimate Heroes: Footballers Who Never Returned From War, Crown Content, (Melbourne), 2002. ISBN 1-74095-010-0
  • First World War Nominal Roll: Corporal Alfred Norman Bradford (2577), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
  • First World War Embarkation Roll: Private Alfred Norman Bradford (2577), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
  • World War One Service Record: Corporal Alfred Norman Bradford (2577), National Archives of Australia.
  • Roll of Honour Circular: Corporal Alfred Norman Bradford (2577), collection of the Australian War Memorial.
  • Roll of Honour: Corporal Alfred Norman Bradford (2577), Australian War Memorial.
  • Corporal Alfred Norman Bradford (2577), Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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