Private Adam Skeldon

Private Adam Skeldon, 4th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders.  He was killed in Belgium, aged 33, on 20th September 1917 during the Third Battle of Ypres. He had been born on Olhamstocks and was the son of David and Isabella Skeldon of Oldhamstocks and the husband of Helen Skeldon of Dunbar. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, Belgium. In 1915 he had been a gardener living in Lauder originally enlisting in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders before being transferred to the Seaforths in France. The photographs show the desolation of the Flanders battlefield where the incessant shelling had destroyed the drainage systems. The Battalion was part of the 51st (Highland) Division and after the War an impressive Memorial was raised in commemoration. It was erected in Newfoundland Park on the Somme where on the 13th November 1916 the Division had stormed the German positions in Beaumont Hamel.

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