The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E Skinner

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Private Edmund SKINNER, G/31334, 6th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Flanders France, 30th August 1918, age 18.

Born Hastings, Sussex, son of Peter and Jane Skinner, of Eliza Cottage, Oakfield Road, St. Helen's, Hastings, Sussex.

1911 Census - Eliza Cottage, Oakfield Road, Ore, Hastings, Sussex - Jane Skinner, head, age 49, married 27 years, 7 children, 6 still alive, born Hastings, Sussex; Ellen Skinner, daughter, age 23, single, born Hastings, Sussex; Peter Skinner, son, age 14, errand boy, chemist, worker, born Hastings, Sussex; Edmund Skinner, son, age 11, school, born Hastings, Sussex.

Enlisted Brighton, Sussex.

Buried at Daours Communal Cemetery, VII. A. 55., France. Commemorated Hastings War Memorial.

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