BORN HULL JULY 05/06/1895. BAPTISES AT ST CHARLES BORROMEO, HULL, ON 16TH JUNE 1895.
SON OF MICHAEL BRENNAN (1866-1933) & ELLEN HARAN (1868-1943), OF 9, CHARLES SQUARE, WINCOLMLEE, HULL (1901 CENSUS), 8, GIBSON STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 1, CHRISTOPHER STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS FATHER WAS A GROCER, BORN IN MAYO, IRELAND, HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN HULL. A ROMAN CATHOLIC FAMILY. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. THREE SONS WERE LOST IN THE WAR. MICHAEL LIKE HIS BROTHERS, WERE GENERAL LABOURERS (1911 CENSUS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 20/01/1915. KILLED IN ACTION ON 16/09/1916, AGED 21.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST. CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH, ROLL OF HONOUR, JARRATT STREET, HULL WITH HIS TWO BROTHERS.
HIS NAME WAS ALSO RECORDED AS M BRANNAN, 1ST EYR, ON THE ST THOMAS CHURCH MEMORIAL, CAMPBELL STREET, WHICH WAS DESTROYED IN WW2.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, JOHN BRENNAN, 10325, 1ST YORK AND LANCASTER REGIMENT, WAS KILLED AT LOOS, ON 29/09/1915, AGED 22.
ANOTHER, BROTHER, PRIVATE, MARK BRENNAN, 3709, 1/4TH EYR, KILLED AT KEMMEL, YPRES, ON 30/07/1916, AGED 25.
