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

Private ALBERT E WINFIELD.

53650, 10th Bn., West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own).

who died, aged 19, on the 20th of September 1918.

Son of William and the late Hannah Winfield, of 18 Boosbeck Rd, Skelton-in-Cleveland, N Yorks.


Gauche Wood Cemetery, Villers-Guislain.

At the census of 1901 Albert, aged 2, was living at 18 Boosbeck Rd and had been born in Skelton.
His father, who worked in the Ironstone mines, came from Crawley Oxfordshire and his mother from Bladon Oxfordshire.
He had two brothers, Harry 10 and William 4 and two sisters, Nellie 8 and Harriet 6.
His mother, Hannah, who was only 31 in 1901 must have died before Albert was lost in the War.

The 10th (Service) Battalion, West Riding Regiment was formed at York on the 3 September 1914.
It was attached to 50th Brigade, 17th (Northern) Division.
In the early part of the war the Division fought at Ypres, but Albert, aged only 19 in 1918 would normally only have been called up the previous year.
At the time of his death the Germans were on the defensive.
The tide was turning against them and holes were being forced through the once impenetrable Hindenberg Line.
The 17th Division fought in the Battle of Epehy, 18 September 1918 and it seems Albert lost his life during this action.
Villers-Guislain, where Albert is buried, is a small village in the south-western most corner of the Department of the Nord.
It is 3 kilometres west of Gouzeaucourt which in turn is 19 kilometres north east of Peronne on the D917, and 16 kilometres south west of Cambrai on the D197 which eventually joins the N44.