Notes
Hornshaw and Fowler provide his service and burial details. He was educated at Rishworth School and is commemorated on their memorial as well (IWM 2631) and in Halifax (IWM 2689). He worked for the Halifax Building Society before enlisting in 1939, initially into the infantry before transferring to the Army Air Corps. His cousin, David Hanson, also died in WW2 and he is also commemorated on a gravestone at Heywood Chapel (IWM 90344).