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Private 275240
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)3rd Bn.
Died 26-October-1918 aged 25
Son of James and Annie Sharman, of Salisbury Rd., Banstead.
Grave Reference: I. E. 12.
HAMBURG CEMETERY Hamburg, Germany.
Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
All Saints Church Memorial, Banstead, Surrey.
Note: Date of Death Discrepancy of 11 days requires investigation.
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All Saints Church
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Private C/60448
Royal Fusiliers 8th Bn.
Died 13-April-1917 aged 30
Son of Charles and Elizabeth Rosa Skelton, of 10, Pound Rd., Banstead, Surrey.
Husband of Edith Mary Smewing of 15 Ferndale Road Banstead
Alfred Skelton initially joined the East Surrey Regiment (21990) prior to moving to the Royal Fusiliers.
The following account is taken from the one surviving page of the All Saints Banstead Parish magazine:
ALFRED SKELTON, Royal Fusiliers, has given his life for his country, and for the cause of justice and liberty. He fell in the Great Battle of Arras, which commenced on Easter Monday,the 9th of April (1917). A kind and considerate letter from the Chaplain dated 12th April brought the bad news that he was brought into hospital that morning dangerously wounded in the head, and unconscious, and that there was scarcely any hope. This letter was immediately followed by a second letter reporting that he had died the next morning.
He was reverently buried in a British soldier's cemetery at Rouen. Poor fellow, he had only been six months at the Front, having gone across to France last October. A Brother, Thomas Skelton, was killed quite early in the war and another brother Stanley, is at present lying in hospital badly wounded. ( Stanley died of his wounds on the 9th of December 1919 and is the only one of the three Skelton brothers who died as a result of the war, not remembered on the Banstead War Memorial.)
A fourth brother, Gordon Skelton lied about his age and was recruited in the Devonshire Regiment. He was sent to France, but his mother wrote to the War office telling them he was only 14 years old. He was returned from France and released into the care of his parents at 10 Pound Road Banstead. A fifth brother, Norman Percy Skelton, was two years younger than Gordon and did not take part in the war although he joined up on the 14th April 1920.
Grave Reference: O. VIII. H. 12.
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN Seine-Maritime, France
Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
All Saints Church Memorial, Banstead, Surrey.
Source: family research including 1901 census data from Mavis Jarvis
Parish magazine page (Edna Touzel).
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All Saints Church
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Lance Corporal 9720
Devonshire Regiment 1st Bn.
Died 26-January-1915 aged 19
Son of Charles and Elizabeth Rosa Skelton, of 10, Pound Rd., Banstead, Surrey.
Thomas was not married.
Thomas skelton was killed in action in France, Flanders.
Memorial Reference: Panel 21.
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL Ieper, Belgium.
Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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Private 41805
Hertfordshire Regiment 1stBn.
Died 11-April-1918 aged 19
Son of Jason and Fanny Sopp, of 3, Dicelands Rd., Banstead, Surrey.
CWGC Grave Reference: Div. 62. III. C. 7.
STE. MARIE CEMETERY, LE HAVRE Seine-Maritime,France
Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
All Saints Church Memorial, Banstead, Surrey.
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Sapper 20213
Royal Engineers
Died 21-June-1917 aged 27
Son of Arthur and Mary Sturt, of 65, Ivy Cottage, Burgh Heath Rd., Epsom.
Grave Reference: D. 312.
EPSOM CEMETERY Surrey, England.
Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
All Saints Church Memorial, Banstead, Surrey.
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Private G/30972 (Shown as Lnce. Cprl. on All Saints memorial)
East Surrey Regiment 12th Bn.
Died 20-January-1917 aged 31
CWGC Grave Reference: I. B. 16.
HEM FARM MILITARY CEMETERY, HEM-MONACU Somme, France.
Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
All Saints Church Memorial, Banstead, Surrey.
IDENTIFICATION ISSUES - Link to Banstead area not yet established.
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