Henry BRAMALL

23 July 1915

BARNOLDSWICK SOLDIERS KILLED, WOUNDED, AND MISSING

A letter received by the parents of Pte. Walter Smith (Cecil Street) last week-end stated that two Barnoldswick soldiers, Pte. Henry Bramall and Pte. Rd. Duerden had been killed. Pte. Bramall is a married man whose wife resides at 7, Queen Street, but no confirmation of the sad news had been received up to yesterday (Thursday) morning. Duerdon was a Blackburn reservist working in Barnoldswick at the outbreak of war.

Pte. Thomas Edward Heyworth, of the 2nd King's Own Lancaster Regiment, is lying in a precarious condition at the County of London Hospital, Epsom, suffering from wounds received at St. Eloi on the 8th inst. He was only married at Easter, and his wife resides at 28, Colin Street, Barnoldswick. She went to see him on Monday and found him unconscious. He had been shot in the right elbow and the forearm had been amputated, but news came yesterday that it had been found necessary to take off the entire limb in order to save his life. His brother, Pte. Hy Heyworth of the 1st Border Regiment was wounded in France, and after being home to Barnoldswick on furlough has now gone to the Dardanelles.
The parents reside at 23, Wellington Street.

Pte. John Bland, of the 3rd Duke of Wellington's, brother of Mrs. Peace, Melville Avenue, has been reported missing since the 5th of May.

13 August 1915

BRAMALL - Killed in action in France, July 9th, Pte. Harry Bramall, 1st East Lancashire Regiment.- From his Wife and Child, 7, Queen Street, Barnoldswick.

20 August 1915

PRIVATE BRAMALL

The above is a portrait of Pte. H. Bramall, of the 1st East Lancashire Regiment, who was killed in action in France on July 9th. In his last letter to his wife at 7, Queen Street, Barnoldswick, he said they were in an awful place, and were being shelled day and night. He added, "They don't know half of what we are going through in England." The widow and family have received a letter signed by Lord Kitchener conveying "the true sympathy of His Majesty and the Queen in your sorrow."

07 July 1916

BRAMALL - In loving memory of my dear husband, Pte. H. Bramall, killed at Ypres, July 9, 1915.

Sad thoughts they linger round my heart,
While tears they often flow,
And to that sad and silent grave
My thoughts they often go.

From his Wife and Child 7, Queen Street, Barnoldswick.

20 October 1916

BARNOLDSWICK - LETTERS FROM DEAD MEN

A few days ago Mrs. H. Bramall, 7, Queen Street, Barnoldswick, experienced a surprise at receiving by post from France a small parcel addressed in a well-known hand, containing two small empty toffee tins, such as are regularly sent out to men at the Front. Inside one of the tins were two letters, one from her husband, Pte. H. Bramall (East Lancashires) who was killed in July, 1915, and the other from Pte. Vincent Eccleston, of the same regiment, who met a similar fate a month earlier. The date on the Field Postmark is indecipherable, but both letters (which are also undated) were addressed from the base at Le Havre before either of the writers went up to the firing line in January 1915. Wherever the parcel had lain during the long interval - whether 'Somewhere in France' or in England - will probably never be known, but it reached its destination in a state of good preservation.

06 July 1917

BRAMALL - In loving memory of my dear husband, Private H. Bramall, killed in action in France, July 9th 1915.

There is a link that death cannot sever -
Love and remembrance last forever.

From his Wife and Child, 7, Queen Street, Barnoldswick.

12 July 1918

BRAMALL - In loving memory of my dear husband, Private H. Bramall, 1st East Lancs. Regiment, killed in action July 9th, 1915.

"Hearts that loved him never forget."

From his Wife and Child, 1 Queen Street, Barnoldswick.