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Military service
Service number:
602481
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
September 9, 1896
Death:
October 6, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XI. F. 2.
Additional information
Son of George A. and Mary Skipton, of Preston, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Horace Kennedy Skipton
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Preston War Memorial
Preston Ontario Cenotaph. Dedicated November 8, 1926. The names of Preston soldiers killed in the Second World War were added in 1949. Inscribed: IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF PRESTON WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WAR AND IN GRATEFUL TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO SHARED ITS DANGERS. -
Photo of Horace Skipton
In memory of the men and women from the Waterloo area who went to war and did not come home. From the booklet, Peace Souvenir – Activities of Waterloo County in the Great War 1914 – 1918. From the Toronto Public Library collection. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Waterloo Memorial Booklet
In memory of the men and women from the Waterloo area who went to war and did not come home. From the booklet, Peace Souvenir – Activities of Waterloo County in the Great War 1914 – 1918. From the Toronto Public Library collection. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of Horace Skipton
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Biography
From the Kitchener Public Library collection of World War One Soldier Information Cards. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Horace Kennedy Skipton
Digital gallery of
Private Horace Kennedy Skipton
Digital gallery of
Private Horace Kennedy Skipton
Digital gallery of
Private Horace Kennedy Skipton
Digital gallery of
Private Horace Kennedy Skipton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 163 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
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