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Private JOHN SKINNER

Service Number: 240158
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 19 August 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BEDFORD HOUSE CEMETERY

Enclosure No.2 V. B. 25.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Skinner, of Exeter Rd., Newton Abbot; husband of Amy Louisa Skinner, of "Teign View", Coombe-in-Teignhead, Teignmouth.
  • Personal Inscription ONE OF GOD'S BEST AND DEAREST AMY
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Buried or commemorated at

BEDFORD HOUSE CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 5214
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