Name
James Abraham Skinner
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
265518
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POELCAPELLE BRITISH CEMETERY
L. B. 9.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans, List of names (probable) on the Abbey Parish street memorials, St Albans Cathedral, Holywell Hill, Street Memorial, St Albans, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Ware memorials
Pre War
Son of Ruth Vernon (formerly Skinner), of "Rosemede," Mile House Lane, St. Albans, Herts, and the late Abraham Skinner.
Wartime Service
Re-enlisted at Hertford from the territorials (2568) on 28 Aug 1914, embarked at Southampton on 5 Nov 1914 for France.
He was appointed Lance Corporal on 19 Sep 1915, developed pleurisy and was repatriated to England on 3 May 1916 on Hospital Ship St. David.
He re-entered France on 4 Jan 1917 via Folkestone and Calais and joined his battalion on 24 Feb 1917.
He was killed in action in Belgium.
Served as part of the 118 Brigade, 39 Division.
Killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes, Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
