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

Private R M THORPE.

200951 4th Bn, Yorkshire Regiment.

who died on the 8th June 1918.

Of 61 Wharton St, North Skelton, N Yorkshire.


Chambieres French National Cemetery. Metz.
[Shown by kind permission of ww1cemeteries.com].

Private Thorpe's family not yet traced.

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 16th April 1915, the Division took part in most of the actions on the Western Front.
In early June 1918 the Germans were still on the offensive and R M Thorpe died of wounds just after the Battle of the Aisne in which the 50th Division fought.
There are now nearly 100, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site.
Special memorials are erected to six British soldiers and one airman from the 1914-18 War, buried in Jarny and Labry Communal German Extension, whose graves could not be found.
Certain of the British graves from the 1914-18 War were brought in from Pouilly and St. Jure German Cemeteries and Briey Communal Cemetery German Extension.