Name
Robert Charles Bransford
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/09/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
20774
Royal Fusiliers *1
32nd (County of London)(Service) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 8 C 9 A and 16 A.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Robert and Mary Ann (nee PARTINGTON) BRANSFORD.
His parents married 28 June 1880 at St Philip’s, Lambeth, London. Mary died 1906 in Watford aged 42, and was buried 12 February in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Robert died 1936 in the Sheppey, Kent, district aged 85.
Robert was born 1884 in Lambeth [not Westminster as recorded in some records], and baptised 15 June 1884 at St Thomas’, Lambeth. He resided in Watford.
On the 1891 Census, aged 6 he lived in Lambeth, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1901 Census, he is proving elusive. On the 1911 Census, a marine store dealer aged 27, he lived in Watford, with his widowed father and seven siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Marylebone, London; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Robert’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)(Service) Bn London Regiment (East Ham).
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
