Notes
The All About Thornton website (see References) states: ‘Harold Knapton, , born in the April to June quarter of 1889, son of John H and Martha J Knapton of 21 Well Heads Lane. He was employed as a miner before enlisting. He was married to Anne Catherine Fletcher on 5th February, 1910 at St. Paul’s Church, Denholme. They later moved to 30 Havelock Street. They had 4 children, Margaret Ethel, born in 1910, Albert Edward, born in 1912, Jack, born in 1914, and Mary Alice born in May 1917 a month after he was killed in France. Private, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment) 2nd Bn., #28873. Enlisted in on 15 August 1916 in Halifax, at home from then until 10 January 1917. Died 11 April, 1917, aged 28. Accompanying his enlistment papers is a faded letter from his widow, then living at 16 West End, Thornton, thanking the army for sending his personal belongings to her, (1 letter and 3 postcards) asking for information of how he “met with death.” Commemorated at Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France Also remembered on Kipping Roll of Honour and War Memorial Bay 6. and on his widow’s grave in Thornton Cemetery.'