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Pilot Officer ARTHUR JAMES SKIDMORE

Service Number: 40949
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

219 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 13 March 1940

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CATTERICK CEMETERY

C. of E. Sec. Row M. Grave 11.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Henry and Eliza Ness Skidmore, of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand; husband of Ruth Skidmore, of Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire.
  • Personal Inscription SLEEP ON IN PEACE THE EARTH HAS NOT A NOBLER NAME THAN THINE
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CATTERICK CEMETERY
Yorkshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 62
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