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Norman Bradford Personal information Full name Norman Bradford Date of birth 17 August 1894 Date of death 4 August 1916 (aged 21)Place of death Pozières, France Original team Yarraville Playing career1 Years Club Games (Goals) 1915 South Melbourne 7 (9) 1 Playing statistics to end of 1915 season .Norman Bradford is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League. He was killed in action in World War I.
Bradford was killed in action on 4 August 1916 while serving in the Australian Imperial Force as a Corporal in the 23rd Battalion of the Australian Infantry.[1] He 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.[1]
References
Sources
- Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
- Norm Bradford's statistics from AFL Tables
Categories:- 1894 births
- 1916 deaths
- Australian rules footballers from Victoria
- Sydney Swans players
- Yarraville Football Club players
- Australian Army soldiers
- Australian military personnel killed in World War I
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