Maj John L. Skinner
487610 Will be sadly missed by his family and friends. Former Life Member of HQ Branch.
Added by: Lt Col Neil Jordan on 17 December 2009.
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Dad, you are still very sadly missed, especially at this time of Remembrance. Will be thinking of you this Sunday at the Cenotaph in Manchester.
I first met John Skinner in Singapore in 1963. It was then that I discovered that we went to the same hockey playing school and we played hockey together for the next 30 years. We seemed to be in the same station at the same time for 30 years although the latter years he worked for the Oriental Express and made frequent visits to Singapore/Malaya and Thailand. I was serving in Andover at this time and we regularly travelled to Waterloo on the train together and chewing the cud. He was a great ... [read more from John Rawlings]
John Leslie Skinner was a true soldier and an inspiration to his family and friends. He had a long and distinguished career in the Corps and he provided his children with strong moral and aspirational values. Lesley Skinner Turner writes [10th November 2011]:
God Bless
Lesley
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John Rawlings writes [31st July 2010]:
Lesley Turner writes [24th February 2010]:
He is very sadly missed.
God Bless you, Dad.
Lesley
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