On 1st December 1777 General Thomas Bradford was born to Thomas Bradford of Woodlands in South Yorkshire.
In October 1793 General Thomas Bradford [aged 15] was commissioned as an ensign in the 4th (The King's Own) Regiment of Foot.
Between 1797 and 1810. George Sanders [aged 23]. Portrait of General Thomas Bradford [aged 19].
In 1798 General Thomas Bradford [aged 20] took part in the suppression of the Irish Rebellion.
In 1806 General Thomas Bradford [aged 28] took part in the Buenos Aires Expedition.
On 21st August 1808 the Battle of Vimeiro was fought at which Earl of Wellington [aged 39] defeated the French under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro.
General Thomas Bradford [aged 30] fought.
On 16th January 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.
Brothers General Thomas Bradford [aged 31] and [his brother] Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Hollis Bradford [aged 27] fought.
On 22nd July 1812 the Battle of Salamanca was fought at which an Anglo-Portuguese army under the Earl of Wellington [aged 43] defeated Marshal Auguste Marmont's French forces at Arapiles [Map].
Brother General Thomas Bradford [aged 34] and [his brother] Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Hollis Bradford [aged 31] fought.
Major-General John Le Marchant [aged 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 21st June 1813 the Battle of Vitoria was fought between a British, Portuguese and Spanish army under the Marquess of Wellington [aged 44] and the French army under King Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan.
Brothers General Thomas Bradford [aged 35] and [his brother] Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Hollis Bradford [aged 31] fought.
Hugh Gough 1st Viscount Gough [aged 33] fought.
General Henry Fane [aged 34] commanded.
General Mildmay Fane [aged 18] fought.
On 1st June 1818 General Thomas Bradford [aged 40] and Mary Ann Atkinson were married.
Around 1825 [his son] Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Bradford was born to General Thomas Bradford [aged 47] and [his wife] Mary Ann Atkinson. He married 16th September 1858 Amy Emily Sarah Fitzroy.
On 14th February 1830 [his wife] Mary Ann Atkinson died at sea on their passage homewards from India. She was buried in the vault at St Andrew's Church, Hartburn [Map] on 16th May 1830.
On 23rd November 1841 General Thomas Bradford [aged 63] was appointed General.
On 28th November 1853 General Thomas Bradford [aged 75] died. He was buried at St Andrew's Church, Hartburn [Map].