George Robert Shipp was only 6 years old when he lost his father in 1900. His mother, who had remarried, died in June 1916. She was only 45. George was present at his mother's death and, sadly, only five months later, aged 22, he was ****ed in action in the Battle of Ancre (Somme). He is buried in the Serre Road Cemetery No 2, Beaumont-Hamel. He had two sisters: Florence and Doris, and two half-brothers: Leonard and Walter Skilton.

Michael Skilton