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Lance Corporal JAMES WILLIAM SKINN

Service Number: 2224
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 July 1916

Age 17 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY

I. B. 40.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John William and Ada Skinn, of Goole, Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription TOO DEARLY LOVED TO BE FORGOTTEN
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Buried or commemorated at

PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1763
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