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Private JOHN BRIGGS SKELTON

Service Number: 23/1078
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Northumberland Fusiliers

23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 February 1917

Age 40 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HAUTE-AVESNES BRITISH CEMETERY

A. 20.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Christopher and the late Jean Skelton, of Bonnyrigg, Edinburgh; husband of Kate Skelton, of 5, Eastbourne Gardens, Walker-on-Tyne.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR US
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