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

Private JOHN WILLIAM RUDD.

17720 6th Bn, Yorkshire Regiment.

who died, aged 26, on the 28th of September 1916.

Son of John William Rudd and the late Emma Rudd, of 23 Harker St, Skelton-in-Cleveland, Yorks,


Arras Memorial.

The Rudd family do not appear on the 1901 census.
John's younger brother, Harry, was to be lost just after the war ended. He was wounded, probably in the last Battle of Ypres, and brought home to Skelton where he is buried.

The 6th Bn, Yorkshire Regiment, were formed at Richmond on the 25th August 1914.
They were attached to 32nd Brigade, part of the 11th (Northern) Division.
In 1915 the Division fought in Gallipoli.
In December 1915 it was withdrawn to Egypt. On July 1916 it landed at Marseilles and spent the remainder of the War on the Western Front.
The Battle of the Somme started in June 1916 and lasted into the winter.
John Rudd's Division fought in the The Battle of Flers-Courcelette (sixth phase of the Battle of the Somme 1916) and he must have been killed at some time during this conflict.
The Arras Memorial commemorates almost 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand who died in the Arras sector between the spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918 and have no known grave.