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

Private DAVID E JARVIS.

35888 2nd/4th Bn, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)

who died, aged 31, on the 29th of September 1918.

Son of Thomas and Mary Jarvis of 27 Richard St, N Skelton, N Yorkshire.
Husband of Mrs A Jarvis, of 6 Foster St, Brotton, N Yorks.


Grand Ravine British Cemetery.
Havrincourt, 10k SW of Cambrai. Pas de Calais.

At the census of 1901, David, aged 14, was living at 27 Richard St, N Skelton and had been born in Skelton.
His father, who worked in the Ironstone mine as a Deputy, came from Killington Norfolk and his mother from Osmotherley, N yorks.
He had two sisters, Lilly 17 and Elizabeth 9, and a younger brother Thomas 2.

His Battalion had been formed in Halifax in September 1914 and in March 1915 it was attached to the 186th Brigade, the 62nd Division.
On the 12th September the 62nd Division were fighting in the Cambrai area and captured for the second time, (the first had been in November 1917) the strongly fortified village of Havrincourt.
The Battle of Havrincourt was part of the first phase of the Battles of the Hindenburg Line.
Two weeks later, on the 27th and 28th September it captured Marcoing and Masnieres, important crossings of the Saint-Quentin Canal.
Further advances were made on 29th September and up to 1st October 1918.
David Jarvis lost his life at some point in this later action.

Havrincourt is a village approximately 10 kilometres south west of Cambrai and 3 kilometres south of the Cambrai to Bapaume road (N30).
The cemetery is signposted from the centre of the village.
Continue along Rue de Ribecourt. Passing the 62nd Division Memorial, the single track road continues into Havrincourt Wood where the cemetery is signposted to the right. and is located at the end of an unsurfaced track about 100 metres long.

Go back to previous page.