Name
Edward William Skinner
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/06/1916
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2133
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAMBRIN CHURCHYARD EXTENSION
O. 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Borehamwood Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Borehamwood
Pre War
Edward William Skinner was born in Little Stanmore, Middlesex, in 1885, son of Edward William Skinner, a Carpenter and Hannah Elizabeth Skinner (nee Parsons). One of five children only Edward and Sydney survived to adulthood. Baptised in the Parish of Elstree, Herts, on 9 April 1893.
1891 Census records Edward aged 5, his parents, brother Charles (3), and sister Alice (3), living with his aunt Hannah M. Parsons and her family in, High Road, Little Stanmore, Middx. 1901 Census records Edward aged 15, working as a Garden Boy, living with his parents, sister Alice (13) and brother Sydney (9) at, 1, Hawthorne Terrace, Drayton Road, Elstree/Borehamwood, Herts. 1911 Census, Edward is recorded as single, working as a Painter’s labourer living with his parents and brother Sydney at, 2, Hawthorne Terrace, Drayton Road. They have a boarder, Ernest Sharpe.
Edward served with the 5th Battalion, West Middlesex, Volunteer Force. His time with then had expired when war broke out.
Wartime Service
Edward enlisted at Willesden, Lon/Middx, on 31 August 1914, for three years or the duration of the war. Posted to the Duke of Cambridges Own (Middlesex) Regiment with the service number 2133.
He arrived in France with the BEF on 3 February 1915, he was admitted to hospital with frost bite to his feet on 19 February 1915, returning to England for treatment on 6th March 1915. He returned to France on 14th April 1916. He was killed in Action two months later on 17 June 1916, aged 31.
Additional Information
His effects of £3-6s-3d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £8, went to his mother Hannah Skinner.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild, Taff Williams,
