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8 November 1914 : Sgt Martin Brennan

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Martin Brennan was born in Burnley in 1879, the son of Martin and Elizabeth Brennan - he came from a large family.  Aged 17 months in 1881, the infant Martin lived with his Irish born father and his mother, his grandmother, two older children aunt and no fewer than five lodgers. All the adults worked in the woollen industry. Aged 11 in 1891, he...