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1/1st Highland Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
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253897 Gnr. Percy John Skull 1/1st Highland Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery My great grandfather, Percy Skull, served as a Gunner with the 1/1st Highland Heavy Battery from 22nd of January to 11th of October 1917 when he was gassed. He then spent time at the Military Heart Hospital, Sobraon Barracks, Colchester and was diagnosed with disorderly action of the heart. He went on to serve as a gunner with the Anti Aircraft Brigade on the Isle of Wight.
He went back to being a Postman after the war and despite his heart condition, following the gas attack, lived to be 96.
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216294 Gunner Robert Joseph Turnbull 1st/1st Highland Brigade Royal Garrison Artillery (d.30th May 1917) Robert Turnbull died aged 38, he was born in Saltwell, Gateshead in 1880. In the 1911 Census, he is listed as Robert Joseph Turnbull, age 31, a Boiler Maker's Labourer, living with his first wife Charlotte Turnbull (Nee Hamilton) & a son at 2, York Street, Jarrow. He was later husband of Mary Jane Turnbull (nee Storar) of 6 Hurworth Place Jarrow.
Robert enlisted in Jarrow.
He is buried in Sunken Road Cemetery. Boisleux-St. Marc and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
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