Walter Bryan Thornhill ^{2 3}

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Walter Bryan Thornhill, born on the 31st January 1868, joined the Army and spend several years serving in India in the Royal Artillery, eventually attaining the rank of Sergeant-Major. In 1897 he married Annie Mary Thornhill who, although born in Beeston, was not apparently related. By the following year, they were living in Dover, Kent were he was stationed and where at least two of their three children were born. After leaving the Army, Walter and his family settled in Mansfield, Notts where he took a position of School Attendance Officer until his death there in 1928.

Walter married Annie Mary Thornhill, daughter of John Thornhill and Fanny Cooper, From Jan to Mar 1897 in Basford, Notts.¹ (Annie Mary Thornhill was born From Jan to Mar 1872 in Beeston, Notts ⁵.)