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Military service
Age:
29
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
August 10, 1913
Hamilton, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 2, 1939
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 1.
Additional information
Son of George and Ethel Skerrett. Husband of Ferne Skerrett.
Digital gallery of Captain George Donald Skerrett
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Memorial scroll
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry memorial scroll for Dieppe. On display at the Lieutenant-Colonel John Weir Foote VC, CD Armoury, Hamilton, Ontario. -
Brookwood Memorial
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Inscription
Captain GEORGE DONALD SKERRETT is one of four members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Newspaper Clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator, September 15, 1942 -
Newspaper Clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator, October 5, 1943 -
Newspaper Clipping
Source: Hamilton Spectator, October 30, 1943 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star November 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton (Ontario) Spectator c. 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain George Donald Skerrett
Digital gallery of
Captain George Donald Skerrett
Digital gallery of
Captain George Donald Skerrett
Digital gallery of
Captain George Donald Skerrett
Digital gallery of
Captain George Donald Skerrett
Digital gallery of
Captain George Donald Skerrett
Digital gallery of
Captain George Donald Skerrett
Digital gallery of
Captain George Donald Skerrett
Digital gallery of
Captain George Donald Skerrett
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 114 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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