Private James SKILLER, G/510, "B" Company, 6th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Flanders, France,   11th April 1916.

Born Winfrith, Dorchester, Dorset, enlisted 6th September 1914, Bromley, Kent, resided Beckenham, Kent.

Husband of Mrs Annie Skiller of 4 Mapledene Road, Dalston, N6.

Buried Ramsgate and St Lawrence Cemetery, Ramsgate, Kent. Grave reference LA 659.

NOTES:

Married Annie Milner, spinster, Dorchester Registry Office, 1st September 1908. Witnesses included Mary E Skiller.

Children: Elsie May Skiller, born 16th May 1908, Weymouth, Dorset.

Description on enlistment: 5 foot 5 inches tall, weight 126 lbs, light blue eyes, fair hair, mole right arm, mole left calf, scar left shin & calf, mole right calf, wart left side of lower jaw.

Previously served for three years in the Dorsets Volunteer Battalion.

Embarked to France 9th February 1916, joined 6th Battalion 1st March 1916. Brought back to England, March 1916, from Le Treport on "Brighton".

Wounded 17th March 1916, bullet wound, right knee, died at 6.00am, 11th April 1916,  in Nethercourt Hospital, Ramsgate, Kent. Funeral held on 13th April 1916.

Widow awarded a pension of 15 shillings a week from 10th October 1916, for her and one child.

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