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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 882

(x) Seven: Brigadier J. S. Bradley, Royal Artillery

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Capt. J. S. Badley. R.A.); Korea 1950-53 (Capt. J. S. Badley. R.A.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, very fine (7)

John Stanhope Bradley was born on 21 August 1923 and had served in the ranks for 299 days before being commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 24 April 1943. Promoted Lieutenant on 21 February 1946, he was advanced Captain, 21 August 1950 and Major, 21 August 1957. Bradley was an A.D.C. to H.M. The Queen upon his retirement with the rank of Brigadier in August 1976 and died on 21 May 2007 at Warminster.

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Sold for
£580

Sale 19001 Notices
Sold together with the full and detailed address given at the recipient's funeral by Major-General Bob Lyon. Brigadier Badley served with 7 Para, Royal Horse Artillery during the Second World War, also serving in East Africa and Burma. A qualified Air Op Pilot, he flew in Palestine and completed a deck landing in an Auster to H.M.S. Ocean. He served in Korea as the sole Instructor in Gunnery Officer.