Eric Charles BRADFORD

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BRADFORD, Eric Charles

Service Numbers:	QX37705, Q104031
Enlisted:	7 July 1942, Mount Colliery, QLD
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Killarney, Queensland, Australia, 14 December 1918
Home Town:	Tannymorel, Southern Downs, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Timber Cutter
Died:	Emu Vale, Warwick, Queensland, Australia, 12 December 2012, aged 93 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Eden Gardens Cemetery, Warwick, Qld
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement QX37705, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
6 Jul 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Trooper, Q104031, 11 Motor Regiment
7 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX37705, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
7 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Mount Colliery, QLD
20 Dec 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Trooper, Q104031, 11 Motor Regiment
4 Jul 1943:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
9 Aug 1943:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX37705, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion, ex Townsville to Port Moresby
8 May 1944:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX37705, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion, ex Lae to Townsville per Duntroon
15 Jun 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX37705, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion, Cairns to Morotai en route to Balikapan
19 Jan 1946:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX37705, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion, ex Balikapan to Brisbane per Amherst Victory
2 Apr 1946:	Discharged
2 Apr 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, QX37705, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Private Eric Charles Bradford (Service No:QX37705) initally served in the ACMF (Trooper; Service No:Q104031) with 11 Motor Regiment from 20 December 1941 to 6 July 1942. On 7 July 1942 he enlisted in the AIF and served with 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion in New Guinea (9 August 1943 to 8 May 1944) and Borneo (29 May 1945 to 25 January 1946). Private Bradford was Discharged on 2 April 1946 - three of his brothers and a sister also served in WWII.

Born in 1918 at Tannymorel, Killarney on the Darling Downs in QLD, Eric was the sixth of nine children of Alfred Ernest Bradford (b1884 at Farm Creek, Tannymorel, QLD) and Nellie Maude Francis (b1883 in Warwick, QLD). Alfred (a Farmer) and Nellie married in 1909 and settled at Tannymorel where they raised their family and Alfred was a Farmer.

Eric worked as a Timber Cutter in Tannymorel before enlisting in the Army, and was again working as a Timber Cutter in Tannymorel in 1950 when he married Melba Louise Fletcher (b1923 in Killarney, QLD). Eric and Melba settled at Tannymorel where they raised their family and Eric was a Farmer. Melba died in 2003 and Eric in 2012.

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