ARTHUR RICHARD BRANDON
From May through to September 2026, Andrew will be fulfilling his dream to hike the iconic Land’s End to John O’Groats! You are all warmly invited to follow Andrew’s epic journey on his Facebook page, “Andrew Beal LEJOG”: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577588795730
As Andrew hikes the 1,300+ miles, he will raise funds for the Ipswich War Memorial Project to help finance our future exhibitions and research of the brave Ipswich men and women who lost their lives in conflict. If you would like to make a small donation, please click on the link: https://gofund.me/5d4a50570
Thank you for your love and support. Andrew & Helen – I.W.M.P.
Photograph courtesy of Richard
Born: 22nd June 1905, Leyton, Essex.
Baptised: 23rd August 1905, at St. Saviour’s Church, Walthamstow, Essex.
Died: 5th March 1946; age: 40; of Coronary Thrombosis at Ipswich Borough General Hospital.
Residence: 37, Morland Road, Ipswich.
Occupation: a Clerk for the Co-operative Society.
Enlisted as a civilian in the Royal Air Force, joined as an Aircraft hand, October 1925, appointed as a Class F Reservist.
Rank: Sergeant; Service Number: 643003
Regiment: Royal Air Force.
Grave Reference:
U.E.148.
Ipswich.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Alfred & Emma Brandon; husband of Ethel May Brandon, of Ipswich.
CENSUS
1911 56, Constantine Road, Colchester, Essex.
Arthur was 5 years old and living with his parents and siblings.
Alfred William Brandon, 39, a Sergeant Major – Essex Regiment – Permanent Staff Territorial Force, born Stratford, Essex.
Emma Brandon (nee Matthews), 40, born Lostwithiel, Cornwall.
Alfred John Brandon, 13, born Walton, Suffolk.
Emma Louise Brandon, 12, born Warley, Brentford, Essex.
Edith May Brandon, 7, born Bangalore, India.
Winifred Violet Brandon, 4, born Leyton, Essex.
William George Brandon, 2, born Leyton.
Edward James Brandon, 4 months, born Colchester.
By 1920, Arthur’s parents had separated.
1921 70, Lancaster Road, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Arthur was 15 years & 11 months old and employed as a Milk Boy for Arthur Harbord & Son – Dairy, of 60, St. Peter’s Road, Great Yarmouth. Arthur lived with his mother and siblings.
Emma, 50 years & 3 months old, Home Duties.
Alfred, 23 years & 11 months old, an ex-Soldier for the 1st Essex Regiment.
Emma, 21 years & 6 months, Home Duties.
Edith, 17 years & 3 months old, a Draper’s Assistant for Miss Agnes Sarah Buckingham and Miss Emma Burton Buckingham – Fancy Drapery Shopkeepers – own account.
Winifred, 14 years & 6 months old, at School.
William, 12 years & 9 months old, at School.
Edward, 10 years & 7 months, at School.
In 1921, his father, his father’s partner and their children lived at 55, Church Street, Camberwell, London.
Alfred, 49 years & 7 months old, a Clerk for the Ministry of Pensions, at Burton Court, Chelsea.
Violet May Brandon (nee Waldon 1st marriage Hartwell), 31 years & 4 months, born Kingsthorpe, Northamptonshire.
John Edward Brandon, 3 years & 3 months old, born Kensington, Middlesex.
Nancy May Brandon, 1 month old, born Camberwell.
Arthur’s mother, Emma Brandon, died on the 11th July 1933, at her home – 70, Lancaster Road, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. A few months later in Kensington, Alfred Brandon and Violet May Hartwell married and moved into 70, Lancaster Road, Great Yarmouth.
Arthur’s father, Alfred William Brandon, died in 1942, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.
On the 11th December 1936, at Isle of Sheppey, Kent, Arthur married Ethel May Capps, born December 1910, Lowestoft, Suffolk – daughter of Edmund William James Capps, a fisherman, of 115, St. Margaret’s Road, Lowestoft, and Ethel May Barker (nee Day (1st marriage Capps)), of 72, Milton Road, Lowestoft.
Ethel and Arthur had two sons:
John Edmund Brandon, born May 1937, Ipswich.
Derrick Arthur Brandon, born August 1939, Ipswich.
ENGLAND & WALES REGISTER 1939
Arthur’s wife and sons lived at the family home – 37, Morland Road, Ipswich.
Ethel, unpaid Domestic Duties.
John, under school age.
Derrick, under school age.
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