Lieutenant-Colonel G.F.P. Bradbrooke
1st Canadian Parachute Battalion

No matter how many jumps a fellow makes, he’s scared. He jumps from a height of 400 feet, and has about nine seconds to reach the ground. There isn’t time to make mistakes.

(Quoted in Star Phoenix, 25 Sep 1942, 3)

Born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan on 14 March 1912, George Frederick Preston Bradbrooke was a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan and an accountant in Regina. The son of a First World War colonel, he was also nephew of Brigadier G.R. Bradbrooke of 5th Armoured Brigade. He mobilized with the Saskatoon Light Infantry in 1939 and participated in the bloodless Spitzbergen raid of August-September 1941.

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