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Pte. Charles George Brake
British Army 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment
from:Dorchester
My father Charles Brake originally joined the 8th Battalion the Somerset Light Infantry during the early part of 1917 and was transferred to the 1st Battalion the Wiltshire Regiment and demobbed on the 5 March 1919.
Despite being injured on two occasions he was one of the very lucky survivors and lived to the age of 75 years. His war service was never discussed and sadly the precise details of his service and experiences are unknown despite extensive research my myself. Many will be aware that the majority of service records were destroyed during World War 11 and so I have relied on the available books published in relation to both Battalions and extracts from the war diaries.
I have been able to establish the activities and movements of both Battalions during this period also the various Battles including the 3rd Battle of Ypres, Passchendale where interestingly both Battalions were in action and in close proximity with very heavy casualties so perhaps that is when his transfer occurred.
2/Lt. T. T. Bramall
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
Second Lieutenant Bramall joined the battalion on 14th May 1916.
Albert Bramley
from:Jarrow
(d.15th Jun 1915)
Albert Bramley was a Civilian Machine Driller at Palmers shipyard who died on Tuesday 15th June 1915 age 54 . He was born in Knaresborough Yorkshire 1861 and was the wife of Esther Skeen Bramley (nee Turnbull) of Jarrow. He had enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers on the 6th August 1914. He is buried in Jarrow Cemetery.
On Tuesday 15th June 1915 Zeppelin LZ40 (L10) commandeered by Kapitänleutnant Hisch crossed the coast north of Blyth and headed directly for Wallsend where bombs were dropped on the Marine Engineering Works causing severe damage. 7 Heavy Explosive and 5 Incendiary Bombs then fell on Palmer's Works at Jarrow where 17 men died and 72 were injured. There was a Memorial with 12 names on, at one time in the Stirling Foundry in Jarrow, once part of the Palmer Shipyard.
George Ernest Bramley
Australian Imperial Force 1st Battalion
from:Randwick, NSW
Three Bramley brothers enlisted. George Ernest Bramley was the second eldest of four sons. Born to William Thomas Bramley and Emily Caroline Pike, in Randwick, NSW. He was a farmer when he enlisted 28th of August 1914. He sailed on the HMAT Afric and fought at Lone Pine. He was wounded 5th of April 1915, a bullet wound to the forehead. He returned home 23rd of October 1918. He married and had a son. The son never married. His brothers, 2114 Frank Albert Bramley was listed as missing then found killed in action, 7th of December 1915 at Lone Pine and 3019 Charles Frederick Bramley, enlisted 17th of October 1916. He was wounded but returned home.
I have no photos of them. My interest is I am writing the Bramley history. There are no descendants coming from William and Emily. Their youngest fourth son died of Spanish Flu after they returned home.
Pte. Herbert Bramley
British Army 1/4th Btn. Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
from:Whixley
(d.19th Dec 1915)
Herbert Bramley was my Great Great Uncle, the son of Henry and Robina Bramley of Whixley, Yorkshire and one of seventeen children. He was born at Whixley in 1893 and became a Drayman. During the Great War, living at 44 Union Street, South Halifax and unemployed he enlisted into the British Army Territorial Force with the 1st/4th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) at Halifax on 18th December 1914 as a Private with regimental number 3527.
He embarked the SS Invicta at Folkestone on 14th April 1915 and was with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders serving on the Western front from 15th April 1915. On 2nd June 1915 he was admitted to No.7 Casualty Clearing Station at Merville northern France where he was treated for sickness and discharged to duty on 10th June. Herbert was killed in action and died of wounds on 19th December 1915 aged 22. He was posthumously awarded the 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. Herbert is buried at Talana Farm Cemetery, Belgium.
Pte. Leonard Hunter Bramley
British Army 11th Battalion, B Coy. Border Regiment
from:Preston
(d.13th Apr 1918)
Leonard Bramley was born and bred in Preston but at the start of the war he was working as a Marine Stoker. His brother James was also killed in WW1 when his ship HMT Strathrannock was destroyed by a mine off St Abbs Head.
L/Cpl. Robert McFarlane Bramley
British Army 1st Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
Robert Bramley joined up on the 16th of January 1912. He was recalled on the 5th of August 1914 and arrived in France 9th Sept 1914 and took part in the Battle of the Aisne. Robert was discharged (Christmas Day) 25th of December 1917. He was awarded Silver War Badge no. 348038.
Spr. Thomas Bramley
British Army 1st/3rd (Durham) Field Company Royal Engineers
from:Jarrow
(d.13th Jan 1917)
Thomas Bramley died aged 22 on 13th January 1917 whilst serving with the 3rd (Durham) Field Company Royal Engineers. (formerly 470560 RE). He was born in 1895 the son of William and Annie Bramley (nee Evans) of Jarrow. On the 1911 census he is recorded as Thomas Bramley age 16 Junior Clerk in Stockbrokers living with his parents William and Annie Bramley and family at 48 Albert Road, Jarrow. He was born and enlisted Jarrow and is buried in Varennes Military Cemetery. Thomas is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.
Mjr. Swinfen Bramley-Moore MC.
British Army Army Service Corps
After a civilian career designing and manufacturing motor-cars and motor-cycles, and writing an educational book "Motors in a Nut-shell", Swin Bramley-Moore worked for General Slumper to get the army motorised. Caught up in the BEF's famous retreat from Mons, with a forceful personality he won the Miltary Cross for taking charge of a bunch of leaderless retreating troops. His photographs tell their own story. At the end of the war he quelled a riot of troops impatient to be sent home, and then had to convalesce at an army hospital in the south of France. Unfortunately all WW1 officers records were destroyed in the blitz so only these first-hand scraps of information as told to me (his grandson) can be recorded.
Sister. Brampton
Queen Alexandras Nursing Service No. 46 Stationary Hospital
Pte. Reginald Brampton
British Army 168th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
from:London
Spr. Thomas Tasman Brampton
Australian Imperial Forces 1st Australian Tunnelling Coy.
2nd Lt. J. Bramwell
Army 8th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. P. Bramwell
British Army 15th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
(d.30th September 1918)
Pte. William Lister Bramwell
British Army 9th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Gateshead
Pte. Eugene Branagan
British Army 2nd Btn. Irish Guards
from:Townley Hall, Co. Meath
(d.25th July 1917)
Eugene Branagan was born and enlisted in Dublin, he was killed in action.
2nd Lt. Spencer Osborne Branch MM.
British Army 2/5th (City of London) Btn. London Regiment
from:138 Kinfauns Road, Goodmayes, Essex
Spencer Branch served in France with effect from 24th January 1917. He initially served with the London Regiment. He was, at some point, awarded the Military Medal. He later transferred to the Devonshire Regiment.
Capt. Christopher Joseph Quintin "Flossie" Brand DSC, DFC, MC.
Royal Flying Corps 1 Sqd.
from:South Africa
Flt Commander Christopher Joseph Quintin "Flossie" Brand DFC.
Royal Flying Corps 1 Squadron
from:Kimberley, S Africa
Quintin Brand was born in Kimberley, South Africa on 25th May 1893. He joined the South African Defence Force in 1913, but in 1915 he travelled to England where he joined the Royal Flying Corps. He obtained his pilot's licence and was posted to No. 1 Squadron RFC in France as a Flight Commander. He claimed 7 victories over German aircraft before being posted back to England in February 1918.
Brand was appointed commander of 112 Squadron based at Throwley in Kent. This was a home defence night fighter squadron equipped with specially modified Sopwith Camels.
In June 1918 he was appointed commander of No. 151 Squadron RAF at Fontaine-sur-Maye in France, a night fighter squadron formed to combat German night raids over the Western Front. The squadron downed 26 German aircraft with Brand himself shooting down four. At the end of hostilities he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, having been the highest scoring RAF night fighter pilot of the war.
Brand worked in aviation through the interwar years and served in the RAF in the second world war, attaining the rank of Air Vice Marshall. He retired in November 1943 and lived in Surrey until 1950, when he moved to Southern Rhodesia. He died on 7 March 1968
Capt. Ernest Stanley Brand
British Army Attch. West African Regiment, WAFF Royal Fusiliers
(d.8th October 1914)
Captain Ernest Brand was buried in the Douala Cemetery, Cameroon, Grave 20.
Pte. Harry Brand
British Army 2nd/4th Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Attercliffe, Sheffield
(d.29th September 1918)
Harry Brand was my great-uncle. He died of wounds on 29th September 1918, aged 18. He is buried in Grevilliers British Cemetery, Plot XII D 23. He was the youngest son of Harry and Elizabeth Brand and brother to my grandmother.
Pte. John Brand
British Army 1st Battalion Royal Scots
from:Wick
(d.11th June 1915)
John Brand lived in Wick, he served with the 1st Battalion Royal Scots in France 1915. ohn is buried in Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension.
L/Cpl. William Henry Brandon
British Army 2nd Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:Hyde Park, Middx.
(d.31st Mar 1918)
William Henry Brandon was born and enlisted in Dublin. He served with the 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) and was killed in action in March 1918.
Nurse Elsa Brandstrom
from:Sweden
Elsa Brandstrom was nicknamed “the Angel of Siberia†for good reason. She was the daughter of the Swedish ambassador to Tsar Nicholas II and was in Russia during the outbreak of WWI. Determined to help, she volunteered and put her nursing skills to use with the Russian army. In 1915, Brandstrom was in Siberia treating German prisoners of war with the Swedish Red Cross. Matters got more complicated when her Russian work permit was revoked, but that didn’t stop her. Brandstrom continued traveling to Siberia illegally for two whole years, until the Russian authorities arrested her in Omsk in 1920.
Upon her release, she went back to Sweden and launched a campaign to help POWs. Her efforts included fundraising and founding a children’s home with room for more than 200 orphans. Eventually, she married and moved to the United States. But even there she dedicated herself to helping German and Austrian refugees.
Elsa Brandstrom
Swedish Red Cross
from:United States
Elsa Brandstrom, was the daughter of the Swedish ambassador to Tsar Nicholas II and was in Russia during the outbreak of WWI. Determined to help, she volunteered and put her nursing skills to use with the Russian army.
In 1915, Brandstrom was in Siberia treating German prisoners of war with the Swedish Red Cross. Matters got more complicated when her Russian work permit was revoked, but that didn’t stop her. Brandstrom continued traveling to Siberia illegally for two years, until the Russian authorities arrested her in Omsk in 1920. Upon her release, she went back to Sweden and launched a campaign to help POWs. Her efforts included fundraising and founding a children’s home with room for more than 200 orphans. Eventually, she married and moved to the United States. But even there she dedicated herself to helping German and Austrian refugees.
Pnr. Albert John Brandwood
British Army 201st Field Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Seaforth, Liverpool
(d.22nd June 1916)
Albert Brandwood joined the 201st Field Coy Royal Engineers, on the 22nd June 1916, aged 43. Our family history talks of our great Grandfather being killed by a sniper on 22nd June 1916 (8 days before the Battle of the Somme) whilst asleep in a trench. It was most likely he was involved the construction of the Russian Saps.
Sgt. John Brangam MM.
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Ballymoney, Co. Antrim
(d.29th Mar 1918)
John Brangam was awarded the Military Medal for his bravery on the 20th of November 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai. His battalion had reached the front line trenches with little opposition, but then encountered intense fire from German machine guns. Sergeant Brangam crept around the right flank of the German line and managed to get close enough to bomb a machine gun post, killing two enemy and taking two prisoners. This action allowed his company to resume the advance and take the German line. On the third day of the battle the Germans launched a strong counter-attack, all the other officers in the 9th Battalion fell and Sergeant Brangam assumed the command and forced back the German offensive. John Brangam was killed in action on 29th of March 1918, he has no known grave, but is remembered on the Pozieres Memorial.
Rflm. John Branigan
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
(d.21st Oct 1918)
John Branigan was born in Dublin and enlisted in Liverpool. He served with the Royal Irish Rifles 1st Batallion and was killed in action in October 1918.
Pte. Alfred George Brannan
British Army 1st Battalion, D Company Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Cleethorpes
(d.12th April 1917)
Alfred George Brannan was the son of Alfred George and Hannah Brannan. He is buried in Gouy-en-Artois Communal Cemetery Extension.
Pte. Arthur Joseph Brannan
British Army 11th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Walker
(d.7th July 1916)
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