In Varennes Military Cemetery, France is the Commonwealth War Grave of 1064 Sapper Thomas Bramley, serving with the 1st/3rd (Durham) Field Company Royal Engineers who died 13/01/1917.

The son of William and Annie Bramley, of Jarrow County Durham.

Peter Hoy of James Hoy Archives has provided the following (his reference is 756):

Thomas was the eldest son of William and Ann (Annie) Bramley (nee Evans) of 48 Albert Road, Jarrow (in 1911) and 22 Borough Road, Jarrow (in 1917).

His father, William, was born in Jarrow and was a 42-year old master butcher (shopkeeper) in 1911. He died on 6 August 1932, aged 63. His mother, Ann, was born in Jarrow and was 41 in 1911. They had then been married for 19 years and had had six children, all still living.

Siblings (1911 ages; all born in Jarrow): Eleanor (15), William (11 He died on 20 November 1966), Charles Heywood (9), Leslie (4) and Lily (2).

Thomas was born in Jarrow (South Shields December quarter 1894). He attended Croft Terrace School. Before the war he was employed as a junior clerk in a stockbrokers in 1911. He arrived in France on 18 September 1915 (1914-5 Star).

Thomas Bramley is remembered at Jarrow on J2.22 and J2.39