Charles Christian Alderbert Skinner
Memorial: Downend - Christ Church
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Medals: 1914 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 9701
Parents: James and Elizabeth Skinner
Marital status: Single
Home address: 6 Stanley Terrace, Bedminster, Bristol
Pre-war occupation: Labourer
Date of birth: 1892
Place of birth: Bedminster, Bristol
Date of death: 29/12/1914
Buried/Commemorated at: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 22 and 24.)
Age: 22
Further information:
Charles Skinner was born in 1892 in Bedminster, Bristol. The son of James and Elizabeth, he was one of ten children listed in the census records from 1891 to 1911. His siblings were William, Arthur, Winifred, James, George Elizabeth, Thomas, Frank and Edward, but the younger two boys don’t appear to died somewhere between the 1901 and 1911 Census’. The family home was in Bedminster, Bristol.
Charles was a Labourer before he joined up as a Private with the Gloucestershire Regiment, 1st Battalion. Soon after he enlisted, he was Killed in Action at Flanders, France in the latter part of 1914 aged 22 years. He is listed as missing in action on 29 October 1914, and his date of death is recorded as 29 December 2014. He is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
Commemorated on the Christ Church Downend Memorial and the Staple Hill (Page Park) Memorial.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Ancestry.co.uk
Forces War Records and Commonwealth War Graves Commission