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Military service
Service number:
687505
Age:
26
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
2nd Mounted Rifles
Birth:
October 21, 1890
Death:
August 25, 1917
Burial/memorial information
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Son of Walter A. E. and Kate Skerton, of Eastcombe, Glos., England; husband of Elvira S. Skerton, of 6, East 13th Avenue, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Corporal William Melancthon Skerton
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War Memorial
Kamloops Cenotaph, Memorial Park, Battle Street and 2nd Avenue, Kamloops, British Columbia. Includes honour roll tablets listing 189 names for World War I and 92 names for World War II. Unveiled on May 24th, 1925. Inscribed: C.E.F. - NOR TIME NOR TIDE CAN EVER EFFACE THE MEMORY OF OUR GLORIOUS DEAD. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Corporal William Melancthon Skerton
Digital gallery of
Corporal William Melancthon Skerton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 326 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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