....I've found an entry on Find A Grave for this man with the information that he was the "son of John Branchflower and Mary Ann Moorman. He was a soldier in the 2nd Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry, fought in the Boer War, but was invalided back to England on May 3, 1900."
....Born in April 1882, at Bishops Lydeard, near Taunton, he died at St Michael's Sanatorium, Axbridge, about 6 miles south-east of Weston-super-Mare, in October 1906, being interred in the sanatorium cemetery.
www.findagrave.com/memorial/203652851/henry-branchflower
....I chanced upon the above information while trying to research F. Branchflower, a Reservist from Weston-super-Mare, who had been working for a Weston building company before being recalled. While still a Regular, F. Branchflower had been wounded in the assault on the Dargai Heights (1897), and the Weston Mercury, of 3rd March 1900, reported that he had again been wounded, this time at Colenso.
....So he was 3282 Private F. Branchflower, 2nd Somerset Light Infantry, who was wounded at Colenso, on the 21st February 1900.
....The Weston Mercury, 23.6.1900, reported "Pte F. Branchflower, of this town, has also arrived home, invalided from a wound received whilst advancing with Buller's force through Natal."
....There are similarities between the two Branchflowers - same battalion of the same regiment, and invalided home within about a month of each other, but Henry Branchflower would have been aged around 15 at the time of the Dargai Heights battle - assuming that his birth year is correct. Can anyone shed any more light on Henry Branchflower's life?
