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

Corporal BENJAMIN E NUNN.

3405 4th Bn, Yorkshire Regiment.

who died, aged 21, on the 25th of September 1916.

Son of Robert and Jane Nunn, of 5 Holmebeck Rd, North Skelton, Skelton-in-Cleveland, N Yorks.


St Sever Cemetery. Rouen.

At the census of 1901 Benjamin, aged 5, was living at 18 William St, North Skelton, where he had been born.
His father, who came from Spennymoor, Durham, worked in the Ironstone mine as a "rolleyman".
His mother came from Rosedale, N Yorks.
He had two sisters at that time, Margaret 4 and Lilian 7 mths.

During the First World War, Commonwealth camps and hospitals were stationed on the southern outskirts of Rouen.
A base supply depot and the 3rd Echelon of General Headquarters were also established in the city.
Almost all of the hospitals at Rouen remained there for practically the whole of the war.
They included eight general, five stationary, one British Red Cross, one labour hospital, and No. 2 Convalescent Depot.
A number of the dead from these hospitals were buried in other cemeteries, but the great majority were taken to the city cemetery of St. Sever.
In September 1916, it was found necessary to begin an extension.

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 14th May 1915, the Division took part in most of the actions on the Western Front.
The various offensives, commonly called the Battle of the Somme lasted from June 1916 into the winter and it seems Benjamin Nunn was wounded in the Battle of Flers Courcelette in which many men of his Battalion were killed on the 15th and 16th of the month. He was then taken back to the base hospitals at Rouen, where he died.