Notes
The All About Thornton website (see References) states: ‘Herbert Layton, born in 1895 in Castleford, son of Charles and Florence Layton. In the 1911 Census his father was a Fish Fryer at 48 Wakefield Road, Bradford, and Herbert was a Skepper-Up in Wool Warping, aged 15. Later he moved to Upper Moor Royd Gate Farm, Thornton. Private, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own) 10th Bn., (the Bradford Pals) #16/1306. He arrived overseas, in Egypt on 22 December 1915. Died 23 April, 1917. Commemorated at Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France , Bay 4.'