Notes
The All About Thornton website (see References) states: ‘Herbert Laycock, born in 1892, of 12 West Lane, Thornton. He married Lily Ellen Priestley on 12 September 1917. In the 1921 Census Mr. and Mrs. Laycock had two daughters, Alice aged 2½, and Elsie aged 2 months. Herbert was a wool warehouseman at the Cumberland Works on Cemetery Road, Bradford. He was a Red Cross Volunteer from 1911, and from August 1914 to August 1916 served in Hospital. Then Private, Royal Army Medical Corps, #120682. He enlisted on 2 March 1916, discharged from the Army 12 February 1918 due to Disability. He was awarded the Silver War Badge. (The Silver War Badge was awarded to most servicemen and women who were discharged from military service during the First World War, whether or not they had served overseas. Expiry of a normal term of engagement did not count and the most common reason for award of the badge was King’s Regulations Paragraph 392 (xvi), meaning they had been released on account of being permanently physically unfit.) He died on 21 January 1924, aged 32.'