Lieutenant-Colonel Bob Bradburn
Algonquin Regiment

Right now the score is still about the second down with a few yards to go—wish we could hand the ball to Bob Fritz because we can’t well carry the ruddy thing some other way. Never was the goal line surer and soon we’ll be home again.

 (Edmonton Bulletin, 23 Dec 1944, 14)

Born in Edmonton in 1909, Robert Archibald Bradburn was a golfer, sportsman, president of the city’s athletic club and militia officer. Commissioned in the 19th Alberta Dragoons since 1929, he mobilized for active service with the Edmonton Regiment in 1939 and went overseas as a captain in the South Alberta Regiment in 1942. The unit deployed as the 29th Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment to Normandy with the 4th Division in July 1944.

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