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Steward ROBERT E SCUFFHAM.
Merchant Navy
Date of death 17th April 1917.
Son of Samuel and Eliza Scuffham of 49 Harker St, Skelton in Cleveland, North Yorkshire.
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R E Scuffham appears on the Skelton War Memorial and Stanghow Lane School Memorial.
It seems that some time in the 1870's two brothers Samuel and Joseph Scuffham came from Boston,
Lincolnshire to work in the Ironstone mines that were opening up in the Skelton area.
They married local girls and ended up living close to each other at 49 and 50 Harker St.
At the census of 1901 Joe, aged 50, had two sons, William aged 19, and Joseph, aged 5.
Young Joseph was killed on the 15th of July 1916 while fighting with the 4th Bn Yorkshire Regt
on the Somme.
Sam, aged 49 in 1901, also had two sons - Bernard, aged 4 at that time and Robert, aged 17, who
was also working in the mines as a labourer.
Young Bernard Samuel was killed, aged 20, on the 8th June 1917 near Arras while fighting with the King's Own
Yorkshire Light Infantry.
It is almost certain that the R E Scuffham on the Skelton memorials is the other son, Robert.
He was a steward on the SS Charles Goodanew which was carrying stores from Aberdeen to Scapa Flow when it hit a German
mine.
13 men were lost, including Robert.