SKELTON, HARRY. 2nd. Lieutenant. 8th. Service Battalion. Royal Fusiliers.
Entitled to the British War and Victory Medals.
Harry Skelton died of wounds on October 16th. 1916, he is buried in Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L’Abbe. Plot V, Row A, Grave 2.
The 1891 census records Harry, aged 3, sisters Anne, Alice, Clara, Edith and Florence, brothers William and George living with their parents Ann and Richard Skelton, a butcher, of West Street, Alford.
The 1901 census records Harry, aged 13, sisters Anne, Alice, Hilda, Edith and Florence, and brothers William and George living with their father Richard Skelton, a widower, a butcher, of West Street, Alford.
The 1911 records Harry aged 23, a schoolmaster, with the country council, a boarder with Elizabeth Jones, of Bryn Celyn Henllan Place, Denbigh.
He was the son of Ann and Richard Maidens Skelton, a cattle dealer of West Street, Alford. His mother is recorded as the replicant of his pension.
Remembered with honour on the Alford War Memorial in the grounds of St Wilfrid’s Church., and the Stamford School Roll of Honour.
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