{"id":8505,"date":"2026-05-26T07:34:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=8505"},"modified":"2026-05-26T07:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:34:47","slug":"skinner-e-w-rfn-5th-london-regiment-london-rifle-brigade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/skinner-e-w-rfn-5th-london-regiment-london-rifle-brigade\/","title":{"rendered":"Skinner E W Rfn 5th London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Skinner E W Rfn 5th London Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n

COUNTY BOROUGH OF CROYDON ROLL OF HONOUR<\/p>\n

NAME AND RANK… Skinner, Edward Walter. Rifleman.<\/p>\n

REGIMENT 1\/5th City London (London Rifle Brigade.)<\/p>\n

DATE OF BIRTH 5th Oct… 1893..<\/p>\n

DIED.<\/p>\n

Reported Missing Oct. 8th, 1916, since assumed dead.<\/p>\n

Source : Croydon Library<\/strong><\/p>\n

Skinner, Edward Walter, Rflmn., L.R.B. (5 Lond. Regt.)<\/p>\n

b, West Norwood, 5 Oct., ’93 ; s., Edward & Emily Jane Skinner,<\/p>\n

310 Lr. Addis. Rd., Croydon. Educ, Tiffins’ G. Sch., Kingston-
\non-Thames. Single. Clerk. Enl., in 8 Lond. Irish Rif.,<\/p>\n

22 Dec, ’15 ; transf. to 1\/5 Lond. Regt. (L.R.B.), 5 May, ’16 ;<\/p>\n

sent to France, 14 Jul., ’15. Missing, Les Boeufs, France,<\/p>\n

8 Oct., ’16.<\/p>\n

Source : Croydon In The Great War<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COUNTY BOROUGH OF CROYDON ROLL OF HONOUR NAME AND RANK… Skinner, Edward Walter. Rifleman. REGIMENT 1\/5th City London (London Rifle Brigade.) DATE OF BIRTH 5th Oct… 1893.. DIED. Reported Missing Oct. 8th, 1916, since assumed dead. Source : Croydon Library Skinner, Edward Walter, Rflmn., L.R.B. (5 Lond. Regt.) b, West Norwood, 5 Oct., ’93 ; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5th-london-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8508,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions\/8508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}