https://gallery.commandoveterans.org/cdoGallery/v/Commando+War+Graves+Memorials+and+Plaques/graves/UK/skeates_No5/skeates1.jpg.html Royal Engineers and No5 Commando,
who died 1 November 1940
Remembered with honour at DOVER (ST. JAMES'S) CEMETERY.

Information update 13/2/2012:
Lance Corporal Skeates of No.6 Troop was killed late afternoon on the 1st November 40 by shrapnel from an exploding shell whilst walking along the Dover-Deal road somewhere between a crossroads and a junction. He was given a military funeral at St. James' Cemetery in Dover at 15:00 on the 4th November. Information taken from No5 Cdo War Diaries
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