Alfred Brammer was born in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire on 3 November 1924, son of James and Elizabeth Brammer of Bucknall, Staffordshire.

After joining the Royal Navy he volunteered ‘for Special Service’ and was drafted to HMS VARBEL ‘for X-Craft’ and trained as a diver. A member of the crew of HMS X24 as the diver, he was lost on 21 November 1944. The full circumstances of his loss are unclear however, according to a report on Page 35 of the book ‘The Tip of the Spear’ by Pamela Mitchell, X24 was employed on a night ‘net cutting’ exercise in Loch Striven. The Commanding Officer of X24 (Eric Jaggers) saw through the ‘night periscope’ that the diver had collapsed on the casing but, before the submarine could be surfaced and anyone could get out of the hatch, Alfred Brammer had been washed overboard and was lost. It seems that he was not one of the usual crew of X24 and he had been picked up at the jetty already dressed for the exercise and stayed in the Wet & Dry chamber until required for the exercise.

Alfred Brammer is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial on Panel 89 Column 2 and on the 12th Submarine Flotilla memorials at Rothesay on the Isle of Bute and at Kylesku.