SKELTON - IN - CLEVELAND
IN HISTORY
"WE WILL REMEMBER THEM"

Corporal ROBERT HENRY BELL.

17295, 10th Bn, Yorkshire Regiment.

who died, aged 30, on the 26th October 1917.

Son of Robert M and Eliza M Bell of 24 Bolckow St, N Skelton N Yorkshire.


The Tyne Cot Memorial. Zonnebeke, West Vlanderen, Belgium.

Corporal Bell is remembered on the N Skelton War Memorial and the Plaque in Skelton Church. The CWGC site has no address or family record.
A Skelton Parish Magizine list confirms the 1901 census.
In 1901 Robert, aged 14, was living at 24 Bolckow St and been born in Skelton.
His father, who came from Shildon, Durham was an under-manager in the Ironstone Mines
His mother came from Ainthorpe, N Yorks, where his older sister, Annie 27 had been born.

Robert's Battalion, the 10th, was formed in Richmond in Sep 1914.
It was attached to the 62nd Brigade, 21st Division.
The Division had fought in the Battles of the Scarpe around Arras.
In 1917 it was moved up to Belgium and took part in the Battles of Ypres and Robert was killed early on in this offensive.
His body was never recovered and he is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
This lists 35,000 men who have no known grave and stands at the furthest point of the Western advance in Flanders before the armistice was signed.
All around the graves of the largest Commonwealth cemetery in the World.

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