BORN HULL 18/05/1887. KNOWN AS ‘BOB’. SON OF JOHN WILLIAM BRANTON (1855-1914) & ALICE TOPHAM (1859-1909). ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN. HIS FATHER WAS A PUBLICAN. LANDLORD OF THE WHEATSHEAF & PLOUGH INN, WELWICK.
HE MARRIED ELSIE FOSTER (1890-1980), IN HULL, ON 04/06/1911. HIS WIFE, ELSIE AND DAUGHTERS, ELSIE AND IVY, LIVED AT 35A CAMPBELL STREET, HULL (Hull Daily Mail 07/08/1916). HE WAS FORMERLY A SHIP’S, BOILER MAKER. HIS FATHER IN LAW WAS MINISTER OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, HESSLE ROAD.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 9TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. PROMOTED TO CORPORAL. KILLED IN ACTION, AT GALLIPOLLI, ON 07/08/1915, AGED 28.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 11/09/1915.
First name:
ROBERT (BOB)
Military Number:
10387
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
07/08/1915
Place died:
Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey
Age:
28
35, CAMPBELL STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
