Notes
He is listed on the memorial as having been a scholar at the school. The school website (see References) states: ‘Private Lancelot Proctor was the son of Robert and Jessie Proctor of 8, Market Street, Ashton-under-Lyne. His father worked for the Oldham and Ashton Tramway Company at Denton. And, his Mother ran a Drapers Shop. He had a younger Sister and an adoptive Sister. Lancelot was the manager of Messrs Buckley, Bakers of Ashton-under-Lyne. He died during the Battle of the Somme on the 7th July 1916 ages 28, when an aerial dart entered the shelter where in he was sitting and a piece of metal entered his brain. He left a wife Nancy Ann Hawkins who he married in 1911 at Ashton-under-Lyne Stamford Street Methodist Church (APD2/3/42) under his full name George Baron Theodore Lancelot Proctor. And a child, Marry Jessie, their daughter who had been born the following year (AST/175/46)'