Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the twin son of J. William Skinner of Mill Street, Oakham, Rutland, and the husband of F. S. Skinner, he left two children. He had been a postman in Oakham for eighteen years, and was a member of the Oakham Territorials. He was in camp at Bridlington with the 5th Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment, to which the Oakham Company was attached, when war was declared. He embarked for France in February 1915, and on the expiration of his time he returned home, however he was recalled and returned to France in June 1917. He had been at the Battle of Loos and in other notable engagements, before losing his life when acting as a stretcher bearer, being engaged with a comrade conveying a stretcher down the trenches when an enemy shell caught them killing them instantly.