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Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Albert Thomas Skill

In memory of:

Lieutenant Albert Thomas Skill

October 26, 1917

Military Service


Age:

35

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)

Division:

58th Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

May 22, 1882
Hamilton, Ontario

Enlistment:

February 15, 1916
Haileybury, Ontario

Son of Richard Skill. Husband of Edith W. Thompson (formerly Skill) of Toronto, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 326 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:
Grave Reference:

Panel 18 - 24 - 26 - 30

Location:


The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:


TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.

Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:

HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.

The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Digital Collection

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  • Inscription on Menin Gate Memorial– Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Correspondence– Field Service Post Card-front, addressed to Mrs. A. Skill, Oct 23, 1917
  • Correspondence– Field Service Post Card-back, "I am quite well", signed by Albert Thomas Skill, CEF 58th, Oct 23, 1917
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– From the Toronto Telegram November 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper clipping– Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
  • Newspaper Clipping– From the New Liskeard (Temiskaming) Speaker for 15 November 1917.
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Newspaper Clipping
  • Newspaper Clipping– To get to France faster, on June 15, 1917, Captain Albert Thomas Skill reverted to the rank of Lieutenant.
  • Attestation papers– Officer Declaration (Attestation) Paper - Feb 15, 1916
  • Family Photo– Skill Family in 1916 - Muriel Skill, Dorothy Skill, Mrs. Edith Skill, Mary Alberta Skill, Captain Albert Thomas Skill (from left to right).

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