It is certainly easier to trace people earlier on !

Hopefully the one above is the right one Garry, could this be Horace's death ?
Death: Sept qtr 1924
Horace Mallinson
age 34
Halifax, Vol 9a, page 445
And of Horace, their son :
Death, Sept qtr 1978
Horace Mallinson
Birth, 4th July 1916
Halifax, Vol, 4, page 0765
Pels.