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Lieutenant-colonel Sir Henry Hollis Bradford (25 June 17817 December 1816) was a British Army officer who fought in the Peninsular War and was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo. ==Career== He was the third and youngest son of Thomas Bradford, of Woodlands, near Doncaster and Ashdown Park, Sussex and Elizabeth, daughter of William Otter, of Welham, Nottinghamshire. Originally an ensign in the 1st West York Militia, he was gazetted as ensign without purchase in the 4th Foot Guards on 6November 1801. He purchased a lieutenancy in January 1801.〔 〕 Appointed ''aide-de-camp'' to the Earl of Chatham, he saw service in the Peninsular War at the battles of Corunna, Salamance, Vittoria, The Pyrenees, Nivelle, Orthes and Toulouse.〔 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 Storrington, Sussex.〔 Bradford's name is inscribed on Panel VIII in the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Bradford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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