Private Charles Brammar

Army Number: 21587

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He was born and lived at North Wheatley, Nottinghamshire. Son of William and Mary Elizabeth Brammar, of North Wheatley, husband of Annie Brammar. He enlisted at Retford, Nottinghamshire, and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, during the attack on the German positions near Ovillers, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Charles Brammar is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Peter and St. Pauls’ Church War Memorial, North Wheatley, Nottinghamshire. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Frederick Brammar, 10th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment, also fell in the Great War.