Menin Gate Memorial
Morpeth Herald 02/07/1915 carries the following:
Mr and Mrs Martin French, of 5 Low Main Place, Cramlington Village, have received a telegram to the effect that their son-in-law, Private Robert Skelton, of the 7th N.F., has been killed in action in France. Private Skelton, who was 24 years of age, leaves a wife and one child.
and
Private R. Skelton, 7th N.F., was killed in action in France on June 23rd. He was the son of Mrs. Skelton, of Chevington Drift.
He is remembered at Chevington on C27.01 C27.02 in East Chevington on E7.01 and E7.02 and in the Battalion History
