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

Rifleman THOMAS ROBINSON GLOVER

R/20547, 8th Bn., King's Royal Rifle Corps.

who died on the 15th of September 1916.

of 103 High St, Skelton in Cleveland, N Yorkshire.


The Thiepval Memorial.

The above address is not shown on the CWGC site and was obtained from a Skelton Parish Magazine list dated 1914.
Family connections in Skelton not yet traced.

The 8th (Service) Battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps were formed at Winchester on 21 August 1914. August 1914 - attached to 41st Brigade, 14th (Light) Division.
On the 15th September the Division fought in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, a further phase in the Battle of the Somme which continued from June of 1916 into the winter.
This involved the first use of tanks - see History pages.
It seems Thomas Glover was killed on the first day of this battle and his body never recovered or identified.
The Thiepval Memorial commemorates more than 72,000 missing men of the United Kingdom and South African forces who died on the Somme battlefields before 20th March 1918 and who have no known grave.

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