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Lance Corporal William Evlyn Skinner

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Military service

Service number: 124333
Age: 21
Rank: Lance Corporal
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division: 21st Bn.
Birth: February 22, 1897 Stratford, United Kingdom
Enlistment: November 3, 1915 Ontario
Death: August 8, 1918

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: VI. D. I.
Additional information

Son of Willis and Eleanor Skinner of Detroit, Michigan, United States of America. Brother of James and Florence.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 501 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS-BRETONNEUX MILITARY CEMETERY Somme, France

Villers-Bretonneux is a village 16 kilometres east of Amiens on the straight main road to St Quentin. The Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery is about 2 kilometres north of the village on the east side of the road to Fouilloy.

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