ALBERT HENRY BRUNNING
Images from the Suffolk Chronicle And Mercury – 1917.
Born: 1891, Ipswich.
Presumed dead: 3rd December 1917; age 26; KiA.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 42572
Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion.
Formerly 3/2 SR 14153, Royal Army Service Corps.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Memorial Reference:
Panel 70 to 72.
West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium.
CENSUS
1901 37, Rendlesham Road, Ipswich.
Albert was 9 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
Philip Brunning, 40, a Baker & Pastry Cook – Restaurant, born Sudbury, Suffolk.
Ann Brunning (nee Cheeseman), 38, born Black Notley, Essex.
Philip Sidney Brunning, 16, an Errand Boy, born Ipswich.
Ernest Joseph Brunning, 15, an Errand Boy, born Ipswich.
Clara Annie Brunning, 8, born Ipswich.
Laura Brunning, 4, born Ipswich.
Leonard John Brunning, 3, born Ipswich.
1911 22, St. Margaret’s Street, Ipswich.
Albert was 20 years old, a Baker and Confectioner. He was 1 of 2 servants for 34 year old, widow, Mary Ann Garnham, owner of a bakery business.
Albert’s father, Philip Brunning, of 59, Sirdar Road, died in August 1909 at the East Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich.
On the 8th November 1916, at the Museum Street Wesleyan Church, Ipswich, Albert, of the A.S.C. British Expeditionary Force, married Edith Ethel Cole, born 1890, Ipswich – only daughter of Albert Edward Cole, an engine fitter, and Edith Harriet Helen Cole (nee Ager), of 28, Levington Road, Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Edith Brunning – widow.
Mrs. Brunning, of 45, Sirdar Road, Ipswich, who was left a widow seven years ago, has all her sons serving. Their names and regiments are:- (1) Prvt. Philip Brunning, of the 5th Australian Field Ambulance. (2) Gunner Ernest Brunning, R.G.A., Stroud. (3) Prvt. Herbert Brunning, 4th Suffolks, in France. (4) Prvt. Albert Brunning, A.S.C., in France. (5) Prvt. Leonard Brunning, R.M.L.I. In addition to the above Mrs. Brunning has six nephews now serving, whilst two others have been killed in action. One of her daughters is on munitions.
Albert is also remembered on the war memorial at Museum Street Methodist Church, Ipswich.
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