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The Roll lists no address for him, and states he died on an unspecified date in September 1915.
(CWGC records that Private W. Skerritt, regimental number 17619, died on 25/9/1915 serving in the 1st Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), and is buried in grave C.6 at Cambrin Churchyard Extension in France. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Walter Skerritt, regimental number 17619, was a native of West Deeping who enlisted in Doncaster. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that his mother Mary Elizabeth was his legatee. The Medal Rolls record that he disembarked in France on 2/5/1915. On the 1911 census Walter Skerritt was aged 20, living with his widowed mother Mary Elizabeth in West Deeping, near Peterborough. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents John and Mary in West Deeping, which was given as his place of birth. On the 1891 census he was living with his parents John and Elizabeth in West Deeping; his age was given as 2 months. Walter Skerritt's birth was registered in Stamford District in 1891. He was baptised in West Deeping on 22/2/1891 as the son of John Thomas and Mary Elizabeth Skerritt).