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Lance Corporal WILLIAM ALFRED SKINNER

Service Number: 6848933
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Royal Rifle Corps

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 December 1942

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY

5. F. 2.

Libya

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Daisy Skinner; husband of Sylvia Skinner, of Retford, Nottinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription A SMILING FACE A HEART OF GOLD NO BETTER LAD THIS WORLD COULD HOLD
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Buried or commemorated at

TRIPOLI WAR CEMETERY
Libya
Number of casualties: 1393
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