The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private J Skinner

Private James SKINNER, L/7785, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 28th October 1914, age 24.

Born Leigh, Tonbridge, Kent, son of James Skinner, of Ivy Cottage, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks, Kent.

11th August 1904, Enlisted Maidstone, Kent. Formerly butcher.

1909 September Quarter, Sevenoaks Registration District, James Skinner married *May Ellen Purday, 2, Crampton Road, Sevenoaks, Kent. *born 9th April 1889.

Children - Ivy Ellen Skinner, born 29th August 1910;

1911 Census - 4 Woods Cottages, Sandy Lane, Hartslands, Sevenoaks, Kent - Mary Ellen Skinner, head, age 22, married 1 year 6 months, 1 child, still alive, born Sevenoaks, Kent; Ivy Ellen Skinner, daughter, age 7 months, born Sevenoaks, Kent; James Purdy, boarder, age 27, single, worker, Urban District Boro Council, worker, born Sevenoaks, Kent.

Children - Hilda Maud Skinner, born 12th March 1912; Alice Elizabeth Skinner, born 15th June 1914.

15th August 1914, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Le Touret Memorial, Panel 30 and 31, France / Sevenoaks War Memorial.

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