Norman Bradford is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne

Sydney Swans

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 in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

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. He was killed in action in World War I

World War I

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Bradford was killed in action on 4 August 1916 while serving in the Australian Imperial Force

Australian Imperial Force

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 as a Corporal in the 23rd Battalion of the Australian Infantry. He name is engraved on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial

Villers-Bretonneux

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, a memorial to all Australian soldiers who fought in France and Belgium during the First World War whose graves are not known.

Sources

• Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.