Notes
The All About Thornton website (see References) states: ‘Edmund Reginald Beecroft, born in 1919 in Windermere, 2nd son of Edmund and Mabel Beecroft, of Close Head House, Thornton. He attended Bradford Grammar School, and before joining up he was a draughtsman at Henry Barrett, structural engineers. Anti-aircraft gunner, Royal Artillery 397 Bty. 49 (6th Bn. The West Yorkshire Regt.) Searchlight Regt., #2086946. Killed in action above the Britannia Hotel in Prince Street, Bridlington on 21 August, 1940, aged 20. The week before he died he was written about in the local newspaper, (the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer,) for having shot down a Juncker 88 in a daylight raid. Grave about twenty-five yards from the south wall of Woodside St James Church, Horsforth, Leeds. His parents are buried in the same grave.'