In Memoriam

Oswald 'Ozzy' Skaurdyus
22/07/1949 - 01/07/2024

It is with great sadness that I (belatedly) inform you of the passing of member 'Ozzy' Skaurdyus, 2nd South Carolina, on 1st July 2024 shortly before his 75th birthday 75.

Ozzie had been a member of ACWS and the 2nd South Carolina Infantry for over 20 years

The ACWS family express our deepest and most sincere condolences to his wife Daisy and family at this difficult time. Our thoughts are with you.

Ozzie leaves yet another vacant chair.

Rest In Peace 'Ozzy'.

Mike Bussey
Webmaster and Director ACWS Ltd
12th August 2024.

The following obituary was provided by Ozzy's wife Daisy:

Ozzy was born in Edinburgh 22nd July 1949, his father was Norwegian and his mother Scottish. The family moved down to Doncaster 5 years later. After leaving school at 15 he was employed as an apprentice plumber with a local firm. When he finished his apprenticeship he was employed by the council as a plumber.

He joined the army a few years later, (Royal Engineers), was stationed mainly in Germany, as well as 2 tours of Northern Ireland during the early seventies. He left the army in 1975 and went back to civilian life as a plumber for the council. We married in 1976, he went self employed as a plumber in 1988.

He joined the ACWS in the 90s, and enjoyed being part of the Confederacy. He had a kidney transplant in 2002 on Christmas Day, that kidney lasted him for 20 years which gave us the freedom to travel America, southern states and mid west America. Unfortunately 2 years ago his transplanted kidney began to fail and so began dialysis at Doncaster Hospital 3 times a week.

At the end of May this year, he began to feel unwell and was admitted to hospital, they did an emergency operation on him for a perforated bowel. He seemed to be recovering from the operation but gradually other complications set in and he sadly passed away on 1st July 2024.