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Estaires Communal Cemetery, France Estaires Communal Cemetery, France
First Name: Albert Last Name: SKINNER
Date of Death: 20/11/1914 Lived/Born In: Kensington
Rank: Drummer Unit: Sherwood Foresters1
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At the start of the war the 1st Sherwood Foresters battalion were in India but they soon returned to England where they joined 24 Brigade of 8th Division. The division landed in France on 6th November, 1914 and on 19th November 1st Sherwood Foresters, after the individual companies had had some trench instruction, moved into the trenches for the first time when they took over the front line at Pont du Hem. Albert Skinner died from wounds on 20th November but the exact date on which he was wounded is not known.

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