[1] Brutton served in the final two years of the First World War as a second lieutenant with the Grenadier Guards.
[4] He played first-class cricket for Hampshire, making his debut against Lancashire at Liverpool in the 1921 County Championship.
[1] Following the end of his first-class career, Brutton featured in minor counties cricket for Cheshire in 1934, Denbighshire in 1935, and Dorset in 1937 and 1938.
[1] During the Second World War, he was the Dorset County Air Raid Precautions Controller, a role for which he was made an OBE in the 1946 New Years Honours.
[11] Brutton died in Sussex at Ticehurst House Hospital in May 1964, following a long illness.