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Charles William Brant was born at Thorngumbald on 27 Jan 1896 and baptised on 11 Jun 1899 at Hollym. He was the sixth child of William Brant, farm labourer, and his wife Mary Elizabeth, nee Fenwick. Charles had one older brother, John Henry, and six sisters, Hannah, Olive, Ethel Mary, Emily Agnes, Alice May and Gertrude Annie.
Private Charles William Brant enlisted in the 12th (Service) Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment on 22 Sep 1914. This Battalion was raised in Hull and was known as the 3rd Hull Pals or Hull Sportsmen's Battalion. The Medals Roll Index states he disembarked in Egypt on 28 Dec 1915. The 12th East Yorkshire Regiment (in the 92nd Brigade of the 31st Division) served in Egypt between Dec 1915 and Mar 1916, when they were transferred to the Western Front and where they remained until 1918. During this time the Battalion and Division took part in many of the major battles. The 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment was disbanded in Feb 1918 and the surviving soldiers were distributed to other Battalions of the Regiment. Private Brant was transferred to the 10th Battalion. The 10th Battalion, also part of the 92nd Brigade, 31st Division, fought in the Battles of the Somme and the Lys in the German Spring Offensive of 1918 and took part in the final advances in Flanders. A Silver War Badge, issued to men who were wounded and discharged from the Army, was awarded to Charles in May 1919. He was awarded the British War Medal, the Victory Medal and the 1914-1915 Star.
Charles was discharged from the Army on 5 Feb 1919. He married Edith Freeman at Patrington in 1929. Charles and Edith had three sons, John, Jeffrey and Peter and a daughter, Kathleen, who died in 1934. At the time of the 1939 Register the family lived at Thorpe le Street, Pocklington, where Charles was employed as a horseman on a farm.
Edith died in 1953 and Charles died on 27 Aug 1980, aged 84.
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