Background
Skinner was born in Glasgow to Walter C. Skinner, a tailor"s cutter, and Mary Skinner née Kendrick.
Skinner was born in Glasgow to Walter C. Skinner, a tailor"s cutter, and Mary Skinner née Kendrick.
He was educated at Queen"s Park Higher Grade School and Allan Glen"s School in the city.
His citation reads:
Following the investiture he was granted the customary fourteen days" leave after which he was posted to the Reserve Battalion in Edinburgh. A few days later, however, he was seen in the line, having risked a court-martial to return to his mentor He was killed in action at Vlamertinghe, Belgium, on 17 March 1918, when trying to rescue a wounded man and was buried at Vlamertinghe New British Cemetery, Belgium, 3 miles (5 km) west of Ypres, in Plot XVI, Row H, Grave 15.
His pallbearers were six fellow-VCs with three others in attendance.