Notes
The All About Thornton website (see References) states: ‘George Nicholson Beetham, born in 1880, 2nd son of John and Elizabeth Beetham, born in Thornton, but the family moved to Allerton before the 1881 Census. In the 1891 Census the family were living at 39 Low Town, Thornton, (now it’s at the terrace of older dwellings on Leaventhorpe Lane opposite Beckfoot Thornton School). He married Annie, née Scott on 20th January, 1900 they were both employed as Woolcombing machinists. In the 1901 census he was living with his wife at 102 Mumby Street. In the 1911 Census George and Annie were living at 174 Girlington Road, Bradford, and was employed as a Card Grinder, and his wife was a Backwash Minder. At the time of his enlistment in March 1915, he was living with his wife at 20 Lund Street, Fairweather Green. At the time of his death his wife was living at Bishops Buildings, 1507 Thornton Road, Thornton. Rifleman, King’s Royal Rifle Corps 9th Bn, # R/11223. Died 30 July, 1915, aged 35. Commemorated at panels 51 and 53, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.'