タルカスと黒騎士ブラフォードはメアリーの忠実な家来だった・・・ **生い立ちは騎士の家柄ふたりとも戦で失い親も兄弟もない** 天涯孤独の身！！

The bolded part is what I'm unsure about. As a little sidenote, seeing that
this is a manga and it's read from top to bottom, it may be of importance to
note that 「生い立ちは騎士の家柄」 and 「ふたりとも戦で失い」 are on two seperate lines so to speak -
whether they're supposed to be one sentence or not I'm not sure as there's no
obvious space between them other than the "line break" due to missing space.

Here is how I interpret the sentence: "Brought up in a household of knights,
they have both lost their parents and siblings in battle and ended up without
any relatives."

If I were to reformulate the sentence as follows, would it retain the same
meaning? 「生い立ちは騎士の家柄。ふたりとも戦で親と兄弟を失い天涯孤独の身となった。」 What I want to know is why
「ふたりとも戦で失い」 comes before the fact that their relatives died. I assume that
「親も兄弟もない」 is what's referred to here that they've lost and what is essentially
being said in a different way is 「ふたりとも親も兄弟も戦で失い」.

Any ideas?

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Changing word order - topic after fact?
> Here is how I interpret the sentence: "Brought up in a household of knights,
> they have both lost their parents and siblings in battle and ended up
> without any relatives."

Yes, your translation is right.

The author probably wanted to end with '天涯孤独の身', which is called `体言止め` for
emphasising the last noun by stopping the sentence with it, and made the
mistake. I would write 'ふたりとも親と兄弟を戦で亡くした天涯孤独の身！！'.
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