Jack Skinner

A Private with the 2nd Battalion, Jack died on 21st of March 1918 at the age of 21. 

Jack was born at Lowestoft in 1897, a son of John and Alice Skinner. He was baptised at Saint Margaret’s Church on 13 March 1898 and his family lived at Arnold Street. In 1901 his family lived at Brier House, Police Station Road. By 1911 Jack’s father had died and he lived with his mother, and siblings, at 41 Seago Street. In 1911 his mother married Harry Houghton and later the family lived at 13 Milton Road.