Private Henry George Brandon

Army Number: 16227

Battalion: 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Birmingham. Son of Henry and Caroline Brandon, of 4, Metcalf Street, Leicester. Husband of Harriett Brandon.  He enlisted at Ilkeston, Derbyshire and went to France on 29th August 1915. He died of wounds, 2nd December 1917.

Buried : Orival Wood Cemetery, Flesquieres, France. Plot 2. Row C. Grave 27

Private Henry George Brandon is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Albans Church War Memorial, Leicester.

His brother Lance Corporal David Frederick Brandon, 2/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.