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

Private THOMAS WILLIAM GILL

2720 4th Bn, Yorkshire Regiment.

who died, on the 2nd of May 1915.


The Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium.

The CWGC memorial has no address or family connection.
Thomas is remembered on the North Skelton War Memorial and the Skelton Church Plaque.
A list in Skelton Parish Magazine for 1914 gives his address as 10 Wharton St, N Skelton, N Yorks.

The 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment were formed in August 1914 in Northallerton.
They became part of the 150th Brigade, 50th (Northumbrian) Division.
After landing at Boulogne on the 16th April 1915, the Division took part in most of the actions on the Western Front.
Thomas was killed in action and was one of the first casualties. The Division fought in the Battle of St Julien 24th April to the 4th May in the Second Ypres campaign.
The Menin Gate bears the names of around 55,000 UK and Commonwealth men who died in the Ypres battles and have no known grave.