BORN MUSTON, FILEY, 1896. FOURTH SON OF GEORGE BRAMBLES (1856-1932) AND HARRIET WITTY (1859-1927), OF MUSTON. ONE OF TEN CHILDREN. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND FIVE SISTERS. ORIGINALLY A PLOUGH LAD AND HORSE WAGONER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 8 INCHES TALL. 134 LBS WEIGHT, 34-36 INCH CHEST, GREY EYES, LIGHT BROWN HAIR, SCARS ON RIGHT LEG, BACK OF HEAD AND ANKLE, CHURCH OF ENGLAND RELIGION.
HE JOINED AS TROOPER, 4622, 21ST LANCERS, DRIFFIELD ON, 15/02/1913. DISCHARGED FOR AN UNFIT SOLDIER, OVERSTAYING HIS PASS, ASLEEP AT HIS POST, FAILING TO ATTEND PARADE AND BAD TEETH, ON 30/10/1914. HE MOVED TO HULL. WORKING AS A HULL TRAM EMPLOYEE AND LIVING AT 14, FREDERICK CRESCENT, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL.
HE RE-ENLISTED IN HULL, IN 1915. SAW ACTION IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. HE WAS WOUNDED IN THE KNEE IN 1916. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 24/08/1918, AGED 22 AND UNMARRIED. HE IS BURIED AT SUCRERIE MILITARY CEMETERY, COLINCAMPS, SOMME, FRANCE.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, GEORGE.
HIS BROTHER PTE, GEORGE ROBERT BRAMBLES, 22ND DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY, WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 22/04/1918, AGED 28 AND IS LISTED ON ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH MEMORIAL, NEWINGTON, HULL.
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