SKELDING, John

John Skelding was born and lived in Lye. He enlisted in the Army Service Corps and served as a Driver in the 19th Division ammunition train. During 1917 they fought at Messines ridge and in the long Third Battle of Ypres on the Menin Road and at Passchendaele. In the next few weeks the fighting petered out in shelling and it was probably in this way that Driver J. Skelding was seriously injured. He was taken to a Casualty Clearing Station at Hazebrouck where he died of wounds on the 23rd November 1917. He is buried in Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery (III C 7)) and commemorated on the Lye and Wollescote and Lye church Memorials.