Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Hollis Bradford (25 June 1781 – 7 December 1816) was a

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officer who fought in the

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and was wounded at the

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He was the third and youngest son of Thomas Bradford, of Woodlands, near

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and Ashdown Park, Sussex and Elizabeth, daughter of William Otter, of Welham, Nottinghamshire. Originally an

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in the 1st West York Militia, he was gazetted as ensign without purchase in the 4th Foot on 6November 1801. He purchased a lieutenancy in January 1801. Appointed '' aide-de-camp'' to the

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, he saw service in the

at the battles of Corunna, Salamance, Vittoria, The Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes and

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. At Waterloo, as an assistant Quarter-Master General attached to the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, he was severely wounded. For his service he was appointed to the Dutch Order of Wilhelm, and of the Russian Order of St. Vladimir. He died at La Vacherie, France on 7December 1816, of wounds received at Waterloo and is buried in

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, Sussex. Bradford's name is inscribed on Panel VIII in the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks.

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;Bibliography * * 1781 births 1816 deaths British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Devonshire Regiment officers King's Own Royal Regiment officers People of the Battle of Waterloo {{British-Army-bio-stub

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