SKINNER, Albert
| Service Numbers: | SN 2167, 2167 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 March 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Machine Gun Companies and Battalions |
| Born: | Queensland, Australia, 4 May 1863 |
| Home Town: | Mannum, Mid Murray, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Auburn, South Australia, Australia |
| Occupation: | River Murray Fisherman |
| Died: | Cournamont, Mannum, South Australia, Australia, 17 July 1925, aged 62 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Mannum Cemetery, S.A. Old General, Row 9A, Block 392, Plot 5. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Mar 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, SN 2167, Machine Gun Companies and Battalions | |
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| 26 Nov 1917: | Involvement Private, 2167, Machine Gun Companies and Battalions, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '21' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: SS Indarra embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 26 Nov 1917: | Embarked Private, 2167, Machine Gun Companies and Battalions, SS Indarra, Melbourne | |
| 16 Mar 1919: | Discharged Australian Army (Post WW2) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Trevor Edmonds
Albert was the eldest son of English immigrant and builder George Skinner from Kent, and Scots immigrant and midwife Jane Brown from Glascow, He was born in Queensland (probably around Brisbane) in 1863, but did his schooling in Auburn in South Aust where the family lived for some years.
Albert made South Australia his home, and after working in Adelaide as a young man, and serving in the militia for a while, later moved to the Mannum area where he was a river fisherman.
In 1917 he put his age down by no less than 10 years (to 44) and embarked for the Middle East in a Machine Gun Coy, but it soon became obvious to the MO that he was too old for active service and he was transferred from the Suez area to England and saw out the war as a cook.
Albert remained single all of his life, and died in 1925 at his home in the riverside shack community of Cournamont upriver from Mannum.