Brantom F Pte 41972 7th Norfolk Regiment
BRANTOM, FRANK, Private, No. 41972, 7th (Service) Battn. The Norfolk Regt., only s. of William Joseph Brantom, of 25 Wolverton Road, Newport Pagnell, co. Buckingham, Loco. Engine Driver, by his wife, Mary Ann, dau. of John Frederick Stevens, of Leighton Buzzard, co. Bedford; b. 8 Dec. 1899; educ. Newport Pagnell County Council School: was apprenticed to the Motor Body Building, at Morgan’s, Leighton Buzzard: joined the East Surrey Regt. 28 Jan. 1918; was transferred to the Herts Yeomanry in April of the same year; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 1 Aug. following, being again transferred to the 7th Norfolk Regt. was reported wounded and missing after the fighting before Cambrai on the 22nd of that month, and is now assumed to have been killed in action on or about that date. While in France he saved one of his comrades by jumping in the canal, and so saved him from drowning; unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5