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

Private HARRY RUDD.

204041 13th Bn, Yorkshire Regiment.

who died, aged 24, on the 21st November 1918.

Son of John William Rudd and the late Emma Rudd of 23 Harker St, Skelton Green, N Yorkshire.



New Skelton Cemetery.

The Rudd family do not appear on the 1901 census.
Harry's brother, John, had been killed in the war on the 28th September 1916 around Arras during the Battle of the Somme.

The 13th (Service) Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment were formed in Richmond, July 1915, as a Bantam Bn.
July 1915 : attached to 121st Brigade, 40th Division.
6 May 1918 : reduced to cadre strength.
Attached for two weeks to 34th Division., and then for another two weeks to 30th Division.
30 June 1918 : transferred to 75th Brigade, 25th Division, and absorbed 19th Bn during August 1918.
The 40th Division at the end of the war fought in the final advance in Flanders around Ypres.
It seems likely that Harry Rudd was wounded in this last period of the War and brought home to Skelton, where he died.