The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Private N B Airton
Private Norman Briestley AIRTON, G/19904, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, 21st September 1917.
Formerly 18011, West Riding Regiment.
Born Guiseley, Yorkshire, enlisted Bradford, Yorkshire.
1911 Census - 20 Springbank Terrace, Guiseley, Yorkshire - Aaron Airton, head, age 49, married, pattern weaver, woollen mill, born Baildon, Yorkshire; Ann Elizabeth Airton, wife, married 17 years, 4 children, 3 still alive, age 48, born Guiseley, Yorkshire; Charles Edmund Airton, son, age 16, single, pattern weaver, woollen mill, born Guiseley, Yorkshire; Norman Briestley Airton, son, single, age 14, twister, born Guiseley, Yorkshire; Mary Alice Airton, daughter, age 6, born Guiseley, Yorkshire.
Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
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