Priest on mercy mission dies in car crash

Fr Tom Bradley, a chaplain Major in the British Army was killed this week when he was involved in a car crash in Alexandria. Egypt. He had flown out at his own expense while on leave to help drive a medical Landrover to Ethiopia.
Fr Bradley was ordained in 1960 and had been an army chaplain since 1966. He received the MBE for his work while at Osnabruck and then was posted to Singapore during the British withdrawal from the Far East. After a spell as Chaplain to the Military Academy at Sandhurst, he became Senior Chaplain in Northern Ireland, Fr Bradley was to have helped Fr John Thompson, Chaplain at Liverpool Polytechnic and Mr Ambrose Lavin, a headmaster from Leigh in Lancashire, to drive the Landrover, which had been bought by the charity Survive.
The vehicle was blessed by the Pope and Archbishop Worlock of Liverpool in Rome on December 12, Fr Thompson and 119 Survive helpers, who had flown out at their own expense, were present at the ceremony.
Fr Bradley's companions are to return to England with his body. A military funeral is to be held next week at Eitherland, his home town.