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Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (Lieut. Chas. Bradford, 28th N.I.) short hyphen reverse, officially impressed naming, minor edge bruises, otherwise nearly extremely fine £1000-1200

Charles Bradford was born on 31 May 1803, in the Parish of Abbot’s Langley, Hertfordshire. He was recommended for a cadetship in the Madras Infantry and appointed to the 14th (subsequently renumbered 28th) Madras Native Infantry on 13 February 1821 as an Ensign, and arrived in India on 14 June 1821. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 23 July 1823, and took part in the war in Burma between April 1824 and February 1826. He was appointed Adjutant to his regiment in September 1826, was granted furlough in January 1829 and did not return to to duty with his regiment until September 1832. Between April and November 1833, he was in Hyderabad, and whilst there he was a member of a court martial at Secunderabad. Thereafter he was granted sick leave, residing at the Cape before returning to England in May 1835, having been promoted to Captain on 24 December 1834. Because of his continued ill-health he was permitted to retire from the service on half-pay on 11 January 1836.

Following a period of study at Oxford University, where he matriculated on 10 June 1836, Bradford took up Holy Orders. In 1846 he was appointed Rector of Greatham in Hampshire in succession to his brother-in-law, Thomas Agar Holland. He died at Melcombe Regis, Weymouth, Dorset, on 26 April 1879, and is buried in St Mary the Virgin, Bathwick-Smallcombe Cemetery in Bath.

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