| Surname: | Redford |
| Initials: | A C R |
| Rank: | Sergeant |
| Army Number: | 7686605 |
| Notes: | CMP. Enlisted in to CMP. L/Cpl 1 Armd Div Pro Coy, BEF 1940. Casualty List 910, Cyrenaica, missing, 20/6/1942. Casualty List 929, Cyrenaica, Missing believed POW, shown on List 310, missing 20/6/1942. Casualty List 966, Cyrenaica, previously shown on List 942 as missing believed POW, 20/6/42. POW. Stalag IVF, Hartmansdorf, Saxony. Casualty List 1970. Western Europe, died of wound, approx. 2/4/45. Casualty List 2026, correction, casualty to the following Soldier whose name appeared on previous lists with date of casualty incorrectly reported occurred on dates as now shown, previous List 1970/5, on or shortly after 22/4/1945 Following his return to England with BEF he was posted to 7 Armd Div Pro Coy in North Africa and was captured at Tobruk. He was liberated by the Americans in Holland in 1945 and was sat on a tank when he was shot by a sniper. His number in the London Gazette for the MM is 7687705 which was also the number of Sgt Albert Gordon Greenfield CMP who was commissioned LG 36897, 453, 19/1/45. Inscription on gravestone: If love could have saved him thou would'st not have died. Peggy, Mother. Arthur Clare Reeve Redford. Extract from the Surrey Advertiser, 31/10/42. Reported missing in the Middle East four months ago, Sergt, Arthur Clare Reeve Redford of the Corps of Military Police whose home is at 29, Portesbery Road, Camberley, is now reported to be a Prisoner of War in Italian hands. Sergt. Redford went to France on the outbreak of war and was decorated with the Militry Medal for gallantry in June, 1940. He married three years ago a daughter of Mr W H Rabin a Camberley garage owner. |
Decoration Record: | |
| Decoration: | Military Medal (London Gazette: 34955 Page: 5764 Sept. 27, 1940) |
| Citation: | Military Medal Citation. France & FlandersArthur Clare Reeve Radford was on duty during the retreat from Dunkirk. The bridge he was guarding had been rigged with explosives ready to be destroyed, and the approaching road had been mined. Radford was told of a wounded soldier in the path of the advancing Germans. He rode his motorcycle across the bridge and down the road, returning with the wounded man draped across the bike, moments before the bridge was blown. RMP Museum. |
Prisoner of War Record: | |
| Imprisonment: | Stalag 4F GERMANY 🇩🇪 |
Casualty Record: | |
| Date of Death: | April 22, 1945 |
| Company: | 7 ARMD DIV PRO COY |
| CWGC Link: | 2081453 |
| Cemetery: | OVERLOON WAR CEMETERY, NETHERLANDS 🇳🇱 |
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