MTSU Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family Center
Roll of Honor
Brandon, Alfred J., Jr.
According to Joe Nunley’s book, The Raider Forties, Alfred J. Brandon “was from Murfreesboro and a member of one of Tennessee’s better-known teaching families.” He joined the U.S. Navy in 1944 as a Pharmacist Mate after graduating from Middle Tennessee State College with a bachelor of science. He contracted plastic anemia during his service and died on September 26, 1945.