Oxford Numismatic Society

 

BRADFORD’S ARMY

OVER 16,000

THIS MEDAL WAS STRUCK 

IN HONOUR OF

BRADFORD’S SONS 

WHO SO NOBLY 

RESPONDED AND FOUGHT 

FOR

KING, HOME & COUNTRY

IN THE GREAT 

EUROPEAN WAR

COMMENCING 

AUG 4TH 1914

Bradford War Memorial commemorates the 37,000 men the English city of Bradford who served in the British Armed Forces in the First World War. Many of the 5,000 dead had served in the two Bradford Pals battalions and were killed on 1 July 1916, the first day of the First Battle of the Somme. 

See alsohttp://www.bradfordww1.co.uk/bradford-pals.html

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