• Operation Houndsworth

Date of birth:

July 27th, 1916 (Barnstaple/Devon, England)

Date of death:

July 20th, 1944 (Crain, France)

Service number:

124886

Nationality:

British

Laurence Roy Bradford had been a professional soldier since 1939 and was recruited to the Special Air Service (SAS) in February 1944. He commanded in A Squadron which was dropped on June 21, 1944 in the Morvan area of France as part of Operation Houndsworth. On June 20, their jeep with which he and 3 others were on their way encountered a convoy of German soldiers and he and Craftsman William Devine were killed in the ensuing firefight.

Both men are buried in Crain's Municipal Cemetery.

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• Photo 1: https://www.staybehinds.com/laurence-roy-bradford
• Photo 2: Graeme Bell
• - Memorial Bradford & Devine .
  - Captain Laurence Roy Bradford | War Casualty Details 2346472 | CWGC
  - Laurence Roy Bradford | British Resistance Archive (staybehinds.com)
  

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