Participant Info

Surname

Skelton

First Name

Benjamin

Initial

D

Service Number

18393

Rank

lance-corporal

Unit Served

7th Field Artillery Brigade, 3rd Signalling Company

Service Record

France

Enlistment Date

1915

Enlistment Month

December 3

Embarkation Year

1916

Embarkation Month

May 11

Date of Death

Month of Death

Death Category

All Australia Memorial Reference

Australia's Fighting Families chapter, NSW section S, notes page 150, image page 149

Also Known As

Spousal

Spousal Address

Spouse City

Spouse State

Parental Name

Jeanette Skelton

Parental Address

Cameron Street, Artarmon

Parental City

Sydney

Parental State

NSW

Notes

"born in Neath, Wales, August 11, 1886, educated St. Andrew's Cathedral, accountant, enlisted December 3, 1915, embarked May 11, 1916. War service: France (gassed, April 23, 1918), invalided to 1st Southern General Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England