Biography of Lieutentant-Colonel Henry Hollis Bradford 1781-1816
On 25 Jun 1781 Lieutentant-Colonel Henry Hollis Bradford was born to Thomas Bradford of Woodlands in South Yorkshire.
On 16 Jan 1809 the Battle of Corunna was fought when a French corps under Marshal of the Empire Jean de Dieu Soult attacked a British army under Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore.
Brother [his brother] General Thomas Bradford (age 31) and Lieutentant-Colonel Henry Hollis Bradford (age 27) fought.
On 22 Jul 1812 the Battle of Salamanca was fought at which an Anglo-Portuguese army under the Earl of Wellington (age 43) defeated Marshal Auguste Marmont's French forces at Arapiles.
Brother [his brother] General Thomas Bradford (age 34) and Lieutentant-Colonel Henry Hollis Bradford (age 31) fought.
Major-General John Le Marchant (age 46) was killed in action. Wellington is reported as saying to Le Marchant that he must take the first favourable opportunity to engage the enemy's infantry, "You must then charge at all hazards" was his final instruction. Following up the attack of the 5th Infantry Division Le Marchant led the 3rd and 4th Dragoons and the 5th Dragoon Guards in what was probably the most destructive charge made by a single brigade of cavalry in the whole Napoleonic period. The left wing of the French army were on the point of being defeated by the 3rd and 5th divisions of Anglo-Portuguese infantry when Le Marchant's dragoons charged in and destroyed battalion after battalion. Many of the French infantrymen sought the protection of the British infantry to escape the sabres of the dragoons. Le Marchant, knowing he had achieved a magnificent success, was leading a squadron against the last of the formed French infantry when he was shot and his spine broken. See Fletcher's "Galloping at Everything: The British Cavalry in the Peninsula and at Waterloo 1808-15". Spellmount, Staplehurst. ISBN 1-86227-016-3. 1999, pp. 185–188.
On 21 Jun 1813 the Battle of Vitoria was fought between a British, Portuguese and Spanish army under the Marquess of Wellington (age 44) and the French army under King Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan.
Brothers [his brother] General Thomas Bradford (age 35) and Lieutentant-Colonel Henry Hollis Bradford (age 31) fought.
Hugh Gough 1st Viscount Gough (age 33) fought.
General Henry Fane (age 34) commanded.
General Mildmay Fane (age 18) fought.
On 07 Dec 1816 Lieutentant-Colonel Henry Hollis Bradford (age 35) died at La Vacherie from wounds he had received at the Battle of Waterloo. He was buried at Storrington.
After 17 Dec 1816. Memorials in St Andrew's Church Hartburn [Map] to Lieutentant-Colonel Henry Hollis Bradford (deceased) and Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Fitzroy (age 8).
Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Fitzroy:
On 14 May 1808 he was born to Henry Fitzroy and Caroline Pigot.
On 27 Feb 1828 Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Fitzroy died. He was buried at St Andrew's Church Hartburn.
On 09 Aug 1831 Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Fitzroy and Lucy Sarah Lethbridge were married. He a great x 4 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
On 04 Dec 1856 Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Fitzroy and Louisa Emily Macdonald were married. He a great x 4 grandson of King Charles II of England Scotland and Ireland.
1873. Monument at St Andrew's Church Hartburn [Map] to Lieutentant-Colonel Henry Hollis Bradford sculpted by Henry Hugh (age 44).
