Alfred Norman Bradford (14 August 1894 – 4 August 1916) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League.

Son of Alfred David Bradford (1858-1941),^[1] and Margaret Mary Bradford (1865-1946), née Thompson,^[2] Alfred Norman Bradford was born at Ascot Vale, Victoria on 14 August 1894.

Recruited from Yarraville Football Club in the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA),^[3] he played 7 senior games with South Melbourne in 1915.

His first match for the South Melbourne First XVIII was against St Kilda on 24 April 1915,^[4] and his seventh and last match, prior to his enlistment was against Fitzroy on 24 July 1915.

He enlisted in the First AIF in July 1915;^[5][6] and, leaving Australia on the HMAT Ulysses (A38) on 27 October 1915, he served overseas in the Australian Imperial Force as a Corporal in the 23rd Battalion of the Australian Infantry.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]}

Bradford was killed in action while in charge of a section of his battalion's bomb throwers, at Pozières, France, on 4 August 1916.^[16][17][18]

His name is engraved on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, a memorial to all Australian soldiers who fought in France and Belgium during the First World War whose graves are not known.^[19]

• List of Victorian Football League players who died on active service