Lieutenant-general Sir Ernest William Charles Bradfield KCIE OBE FRCS (28 May 1880 — 28 October 1963) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
He would go onto hold a number of senior appointments within the Indian Medical Service, rising to the rank of lieutenant-general.
Bradfield was noted as being infleuential in the establishment of the Indian Army Medical Corps during the Second World War.
He was a keen sportsman during his studies, representing St Mary's at both cricket and rugby union.
[2] After graduating, he was commissioned into the Indian Medical Service as a lieutenant in August 1902,[3] with promotion to captain following in July 1906.
[5] Bradfield returned to India during the early stages of the Second World War as part of the Souttar Commission to investigate reports of a lack of medical officers for service in the British Indian Army, owing to the non-co-operation of the Indian National Congress.
[5] Bradfield was later elected a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1962,[5] a year before his death at Putney Hospital in October 1963.