Private William Cecil C Skin
2nd Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment

1914 Star

Mentioned as serving - Le Gazette de Guernesey 1914. Guernsey Press Aug. 1915 mentions him as honourably discharged due to shrapnel wounds. Son of Mr Harry Skin & Mrs Mary Skin, formerly a grower and carpenter, of La Ramée, St Peter Port Brother of A/B Albin Skin. Born 1888 at St Peter Port.

Enlisted in 1903. Served in India. Transferred to reserve in 1906 and re-enlisted in Aug 1914. Ex Royal Guernsey Militia. William Cecil Skin appears on the Bailiwick of Guernsey war memorial in St Peter Port as "C Skin". An error was made as he died in Cambridge in 1971.