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Charles Ralph Skinner was born the 27 Jan 1896, the son of John Robert and Ann Skinner (nee Marginson). John was the sexton of St Mary's, Beverley and the family lived in the Cemetery Lodge, New Walk in the burial ground. On his death aged 70 in 1933, John Robert had been St Mary's sexton for 49 years and a memorial to both him and his wife Ann was erected in remembrance. Charles was a clerk at the Beverley Goods Station.
Charles enlisted in the 7th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers in Feb 1916 and served in France, he was wounded once, and served with the Army of Occupation in Belgium after the Armistice.
Whilst home on leave, on 2 Jul 1918 he married Greta Sugdon at Beverley Minster. The following Easter he was also on leave, fit and healthy and in good spirits before he returned to Belgium. Two weeks later news was received that he was ill in hospital, in Brabant, near Charleroi. Private Charles Ralph Skinner, died of pneumonia on 6 May 1919, aged 23.
He was awarded the Victory Medal and the British War Medal and is remembered on the Beverley War Memorial. He is buried in the Marcinelle New Communal Cemetery, Belgium.
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