Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, Belgium
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At the census of 1901, Peter, aged 7, was living at 25 Richard St, N
Skelton, but had been
born in W Hartlepool, Durham.
His father, who worked as an Ironstone miner, came from Long Sutton,
Yorks and his mother from
Sleights, Yorks.
He had two older brothers John 17, who was a horse driver in the mines
and Herbert 15.
A list compiled by the late Tom Curno gives his address at the time of
his death as 13 Wharton St, N Skelton.
The 9th (Service) Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment was Formed at
Richmond, 22 September 1914.
It was attached to 69th Brigade, 23rd Division and took part in most of
the action on the Western Front.
Prior to 1917 it had been involved in the Battles of the Somme in
France.
Peter must have been killed in the Third Battle of Ypres.
An offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German
attention from a weakened French front further south.
The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines
Ridge was a complete success,
but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July,
quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the
rapidly deteriorating weather.
The campaign finally came to a close in November with the capture of
Passchendaele.
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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