Notes
The All About Thornton website (see References) states: ‘Benjamin Sydney Appleyard, born in Thornton in 1891, probably at 13 Ball Street, son of John and Jane Ann Appleyard, of 233, Hall Lane, Bradford. In the 1911 Census he was aged 19 and was a Compositor in a General Printers. Second Lieutenant, Yorkshire Regiment 2nd Bn. Died 29 September, 1918, aged 27. Grave reference: D 18, Chapel Corner Cemetery, Sauchy-Lestrée, Pas de Calais, France.'