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Surname: SKIRROW
Forename(s): William Alfred Rhodes
Place of Birth: Addingham, Yorkshire
Service No: 260009
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 1/4th Battalion
Division: 49th (West Riding) Division
Age: 24
Date of Death: 1918-04-17
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 82 to 85.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)
Additional Information:
William Alfred Rhodes Skirrow was the son of Alfred Rhodes and Harriet Ann Skirrow, née Brown. Alfred (born Addingham, Yorkshire) was the son of Wilfred R. and Elizabeth Skirrow. Harriet (born Leeds, Yorkshire) was the daughter of Adam and Margaret Brown. William was baptized at Whitkirk (St Mary), Yorkshire on the 13 August 1899. His father was a coal merchant and the family's address given as Sunny Hill, Halton.
1901 Leeds (Headingley), Yorkshire Census: 67b, Royal Park Terrace - William Alfred R. Skirrow, aged 6 years, born Addingham, Yorkshire, son of Harriett Skirrow (married).
William's mother died in 1901 and his father in 1907.
1911 Leeds, Yorkshire Census: 82 Belle Vue Road - Alfred Skirrow, aged 16 years, born Addingham, Yorkshire. [Alfred was living with his uncle and aunt, William and Mary Jane Hummerston [née Brown].
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte William A.R. Skirrow, 260009, W. Rid. R.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte William Alfred Rhodes Skirrow, 260009, 1/5 W. Rid. R.; 1/4 W. Rid. R. Died 17.4.18.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte William Alfred Rhodes Skirrow, 260009, 1/4th Bn W. Riding. Date and Place of Death: 17.4.18 France. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Grantee - Adam Brown. £19 19s. 9d.
Data Source: Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19 Records
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 49th (West Riding) Division
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS, April 27, 1918
OUR FIGHTING RETREAT FROM ARMENTIÈRES: THE FIVE DAYS’ DEFENCE OF ERQUINGHEM. DRAWN BY H. W. KOEKKOEK FROM MATERIAL SUPPLIED BY AN EYE-WITNESS. Erquinghem is about two miles west of Armentières (seen in the distance in the right background of our drawing), and lies on the road (seen in the middle distance on the right) leading west by south to Estaires and Merville. A pontoon-bridge over the River Lys is shown on the extreme left in the background. In the right foreground is the British first-line trench, and further to the left are rows of sectional trenches. Writing on April 11, Mr. H. Perry Robinson said: “When the success of the first attack on Ploegsteert permitted the Germans to pour through on the north side, while on the south side the fighting was going on about Estaires, the threat to our garrison in the Armentières area was evidently so great, with the enemy nearly making contact from both flanks in the rear, that it was withdrawn first to Erquinghem soon after midday yesterday, and then to a line in front of Nieppe, which line we still hold.” [The 1/4th Bn Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) fought in and around Erquinghem on the 10th April 1918]
Kindly supplied by Robert S. Richardson
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