BORN HULL, 1876. SON OF ALFRED BRANTON (1834-1914) & SUSANNAH ENDERBY (1839-1930), OF PEASE STREET, HULL. HE HAD THREE SISTERS AND ONE BROTHER.
HE MARRIED, GERTRUDE BANKS (1876-1941), ON 27/03/1897, AT ST JAMES CHURCH, HULL. AND RESIDED AT BRIDLINGTON STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS). HE WORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER, BOARDING ALONE, WITH THE WRIGHT FAMILY, AT 5, WATERHOUSE LANE, HULL (1911 CENSUS)
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EYR. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 24/04/1915, AGED 39. COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 5TH MAY 1915. *
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIFE GERTRUDE AND DAUGHTER, NORA. HIS WIDOW WAS REFUSED A WAR PENSION AS HER DAUGHTER, NORA (BORN 18/9/1900) WAS OVER AGE. GERTRUDE THEN RESIDED AT THE WORKHOUSE INFIRMARY ON BEVERLEY ROAD, HULL, (WAR PENSION RECORDS). WHEN SHE DIED, NORA WAS LOOKED AFTER BY HIS BROTHER, ROBERT BRANTON, AT 110 THORSBY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION RECORDS).
