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Bradburn, Ernest Edward

Known as Ted Bradburn, he was a Private in the Australian Corps of Signals and was captured in Kalamata, Greece on 29 Apr 1941. He was transported by train to Wolfsberg (Stalag 18A) with time spent in Corinth and Salonika. Ted arrived in Wolfsberg on 7 July 1941. His service number was QX7000 and POW Number was 3804. By war's end was interned for 1,468 days. Ted was injured in the bomb raid on 19 Feb 1945, suffering a contusion to the face.

Ted was born in Sydney, NSW on 1 Feb 1916. He married Jean Marjorie Vaughan in 1948 in Fortitude Valley, Queensland. He died 22 May 1966 aged 50 (Ancestry). They lived in the Brisbane suburb of Bulimba.

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