SKIDMORE Bert

  • First Name(s):
    Bert 
  • Surname:
    SKIDMORE
  • Service Number:
    241656
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    1st/8th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    27th October 1918
  • Age At Death:
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany, Grave V. E. 5.
  • Place of Birth:
    Born and resident Lye, Worcestershire, enlisted Stourbridge, Worcestershire
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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SKIDMORE Bert Is Named On These Memorials

Lye and Wollescote War Memorial
Lye Christ Church Window

Further Information About SKIDMORE Bert

Bert Skidmore came from Lye and volunteered for the Worcester Territorials.  He was sent to the 1st/8th Battalion which had been in France and Flanders since 1915.  They had been through the long, gruelling battles of the Somme in 1916, Third Ypres in 1917 and the retreats of Spring 1918.  In August 1918, however, the Battalion started on the Advance to Victory which culminated in the total success of the battle of Beaurevoir in November. Private Bert Skidmore, however, had been made prisoner some time during the year.  It is most likely that this happened in the long retreat of March 1918 from St. Quentin across the old Somme battlefield.  He died in a German prisoner of war camp at Cologne on the 27th October 1918.

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Credits: Researched by The Black Country Society.