Description:
Black and white photograph of Pte Leonard Matthew Skyrme in King's Shropshire Light Infantry uniform during the First World War (Although his cap badge and medal index card state the Herefordshire Regiment)
Son of William and Sarah Ann Skyrme, of 69, Millbrook St., Hereford, Leonard was wounded in action in Gaza on March 27th 1917, and died of his wounds in hospital on 5th April 1917. He is buried at Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt