Notes
The Roll lists his address as 20 Cobden Street. It states he died on 21/1/1915, which differs from official records.
(CWGC records that Private Albert William Skipp, regimental number 3/10084, died on 20/1/1915 serving in 1st Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial in France. Soldiers Died in the Great War records Albert as a native of Walsoken who enlisted in Northampton. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he was killed in action on 20/1/1915, and that his father John William was his legatee. The Medal Rolls record that Albert went to France on 12/11/1914, and that he was killed in action on 20/1/1915. On the 1911 census Albert William Skipp was aged 17, living with his parents John William and Eliza Jane Skipp at Whaplode Fen, Holbeach; his place of birth was given as Walsoken, Norfolk. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents in Whittlesey Road, March, Cambridgeshire. His birth was registered in 1893 in the Wisbech District).