Wigan Album

Given by Dorothy Harrison (nee Gaskell) - a former beau?

My dad jack Taylor lived at number 44 Malvern and would have known Harold, they were about the same age.

Harold died in early 1941, his death was registered in Sevenoaks, Kent. The Battle of Britain was over by then but as a Leading Air Craftsman and not air crew he might have died as a result of bombing.

Sadly he could also have died as a result of an accident, many young men died while training. It was not "good practice", at the time, to allow such information to be released. It was considered counterproductive in the attempts to raise the country's moral. Percy Moxey, who was a Wigan RL player, also died in a flying accident in 1942 near Birmingham, while training as a navigator, there were many others.