Introduction
Sergeant (Air Gunner) Eric William Joseph Skinner, 50 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Lived in Brighton, and earlier in Slade Green, but the Dartford Chronicle newspaper describes him as being from Dartford. Died 30.8.40, aged 21, when his Hampden bomber was shot down by a German night fighter during a raid on an oil refinery in Gladbeck, Germany. Buried in Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery, Netherlands.