Redford, Arthur Clare Reeve

Date of birth:: May 6th, 1916
Date of death:: April 22nd, 1945
Buried on:: Commonwealth War Cemetery Overloon
Plot: III. Row: A. Grave: 14.
Service number:: 7686605
Nationality:: British

Biography

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Military Medal (MM)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Sergeant
Awarded for:: Operation Dynamo

“Arthur Clare Reeve Radford was on duty during the retreat from Dunkirk. The bridge he was guarding had been rigged with explosives ready to be destroyed, and the approaching road had been mined. Radford was told of a wounded soldier in the path of the advancing Germans. He rode his motorcycle across the bridge and down the road, returning with the wounded man draped across the bike, moments before the bridge was blown.”