Name
Alfred William Skingle
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/09/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
266640
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURES NO.1 AND NO.2
I. H. 7.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
High Wych Memorial, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Sawbridgeworth memorials
Pre War
Alfred was born at Hatfield Broad Oak in 1892. However, by 1901 the family lived at Sheering and later moved to High Wych where Alfred attended school. In the 1911 census, the family lived at Mabbletts, High Wych and Alfred was recorded as a ‘Shepherd on Farm’.
Alfred was a resident of Sawbridgeworth when he enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
He was originally service number 5045 indicating that he enlisted between 24th May and 2nd June 1915. Alfred volunteered at Hertford and served in the 1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment. His date of death is given as 2 September 1917. Alfred’s Battalion was going in to the trenches, relieving the 3rd Bn. Rifle Brigade. It would seem likely that he will killed during that movement.
Alfred Skingle is buried at Voormezeele Enclosures (No. 1) Cemetery, Ypres. He is also named on the High Wych Memorial Plaque. He was aged 25.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Douglas Coe
