Career
Born in Middlesbrough, Tranter played as a left-back for Thames Ironworks, the team that would later become West Ham United. The club handbook described him as a player that "rushes in where others feared to tread". He then left to play for Chatham, but returned to the newly renamed club, along with teammate Albert Kaye, for the 1900-1901 season.
He played in the inaugural game for the new club, a 7-0 battering of Gravesend on 1 September 1900, and made a further three Southern League appearances for West Ham that season.
