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224085Pte. Austin Benjamin John Brighton
British Army 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment
from:Peel St, Bedford, Bedfordshire
The following is from my uncle (Tony Burgoyne):
Austin Benjamin John Brighton (son of George Brighton and Elizabeth Lucy Brighton) was born 5 September 1897 in The Tuns Inn, Broome, Norfolk, and died 4 August 1975 in Bedford. He married Alice Clarke on 5 October 1921 in Pertenhall Parish Church, daughter of James Clarke and Elizabeth Ann Fisher.
Includes notes for Austin Benjamin John Brighton:
Grandad Brighton fought at Gallipoli and in France during WW1. He was in the Suffolk Yeomanry, 2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment. He sailed for France on May 7th 1916 and his forwarding address was: Royal Suffolk Hussars, 15th Div IBD, 17th sect APO British Expeditionary Forces.
Dorothy can remember Grandad telling her once that a cousin of his was killed beside him - A corporal, James Samuel Brighton, of the 2nd Batallion Suffolk Regiment - service no 17101 was killed on 27 Sept 1918 aged 23 son of Robert and Annie Brighton of Bungay. He is buried at Grevilliers British Cemetery, Pas de Calais. A private Harry Brighton was killed on 1 July 1916 (an HP Brighton is on Bungay's memorial cross but he was from the 11th Batallion - he was killed near Thiepval on the Somme...a Harry P Brighton is recorded as a 17 yo bricklayer bn Bungay in the 1901 census).
Earlier, he sailed for the Dardanelles (Gallipoli) on the Olympia on 25 Sep 1915. He landed a the Dardanelles on 10 Oct 1915. He sailed from Alexandria, Egypt on HMHS Lanfranc on 29 Dec 1915 and landed back in England on 10 Jan 1916 ie some 4 months before he left for France.
He was born at the Tuns Inn, 5 Pirnough St, Broome...a continuation of Wainford Rd (very close to the village of Broome). It was the only building in the street in 1742 and in 1869 an Ebenezer was landlord. The building still stands and a Mrs Collier (92 yo) lives in the house as of Nov 2001. It is now recorded on video.
Why did grandad go to Bedford? Lewis Brighton reveals that he was told about a job by Jane Felles (nee Brighton) as a gardener. He applied for and got the job and then met Nanna (Alice Clarke) who was a maid servant at the same house.
Betty Warnes can remember visiting Nanna and grandad in Bedford when she and her father drove the truck full of sugar beets to market nearby.
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