Basic Details
Surname
Skilling
Forenames
W J
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Notes
Recovered 23.01.23 from https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2255962/william-jesse-skilling/
Service Number: 2015090
Royal Engineers 722 Artisan Works Coy.
Date of Death 16 December 1944 Age 30 years old
Buried SCHOONSELHOF CEMETERY V. A. 13. Belgium
Son of Andrew and Charlotte Mary Skilling, of Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire; husband of Ida Victoria Skilling, of Mansfield Woodhouse.
Personal Inscription IN OUR HEARTS A PICTURE OF A DEAR HUSBAND AND DADDY. WIFE IDA, TERRY, CAROL & PAMELA
Primary Service
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Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
Belgium
Country of burial
Belgium
Cemetery
SCHOONSELHOF CEMETERY
Year of death
1944
Month of death
December
Day of death
16
Age at death
30
Manner of death reference
Killed in Action