Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt Skelton was the rear gunner aboard Vickers Wellington IV Z1324 QT-A of 142 Squadron, which was lost on a 'Gardening' (mine-laying) mission to the Terschelling Gat region, the area codenamed 'Mussels'. The Wellington was shot down by a Luftwaffe night-fighter, flown by Oblt. Ludwig Becker of 6./NJG2 and crashed into the North Sea north-east of Terschelling with the loss of all five crew members.
W.R. Chorley; 1994; Midland Counties Publications; ISBN 0 904597 89 X, page 148
He is remembered in Bardon Mill on B103.01, at Beltingham on B21.02, at Haltwhistle on H5.06 and and at Henshaw on H41.01
