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Military service
Service number:
72791
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Engineers
Death:
May 31, 1940
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 20.
Additional information
Son of Edmund E. and Alice Marguerite Bradford, of Victoria, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Desmond Ewart Bradford
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Stained Glass Window
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2311 Lieutenant Desmond Ewart Bradford (RMC 1933) was the son of Edmund E. and Alice Marguerite Bradford, of Victoria, British Columbia. He served with the Royal Engineers. He died on May 31, 1940. His name is listed on column 20 of the Dunkirk Memorial, in Nord, France. -
Memorial
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2311 Lieutenant Desmond Ewart Bradford (RMC 1933) was the son of Edmund E. and Alice Marguerite Bradford, of Victoria, British Columbia. He served with the Royal Engineers. He died on May 31, 1940. His name is listed on column 20 of the Dunkirk Memorial, in Nord, France. -
Plaque
Ex-cadets are named on the Memorial Arch at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario and in memorial stained glass windows to fallen comrades. 2311 Lieutenant Desmond Ewart Bradford (RMC 1933) was the son of Edmund E. and Alice Marguerite Bradford, of Victoria, British Columbia. He served with the Royal Engineers. He died on May 31, 1940. His name is listed on column 20 of the Dunkirk Memorial, in Nord, France. -
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Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Desmond Ewart Bradford
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Desmond Ewart Bradford
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Desmond Ewart Bradford
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Desmond Ewart Bradford
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Desmond Ewart Bradford
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Desmond Ewart Bradford
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Desmond Ewart Bradford
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Desmond Ewart Bradford
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Desmond Ewart Bradford
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 11 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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DUNKIRK MEMORIAL Nord, France
The Dunkirk Memorial stands at the entrance to the British War Graves Section of Dunkirk Town Cemetery, which lies at the south-eastern corner of the town of Dunkirk, immediately south of the canal and on the road to Veurne (Furnes) in Belgium. The Dunkirk Memorial commemorates more than 4,500 casualties of the British Expeditionary Force who died in the campaign of 1939-40 and who have no known grave. The memorial was designed by Philip Hepworth. The engraved glass panel depicting the evacuation was created by John Hutton.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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