NAVAL MAN'S STRANGE WILL.
ON IDENIFICATION DISC. READ UNDER MESCROSCOFE. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, July 2. Probate was granted of a strange will, which consists an inscription on the naval identification card of a plumber named William Skinner, who lost his life in the battle of Jutland aboard the Indefatigable. His disc was discovered long after the battle, when the polished reverse side disclosed a finely engraved inscription easily legible under - - the miscroscope, bequeathing "everything to my darling wife, Alice Maud Skinner."
The will was properly signed and witnessed, and Skinner's father identified the signature. The estate amounts to £258. The widow has remarried. She is now Mrs. Ballard, and is living in Australia.—(United Service.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 155, 3 July 1922, Page 5
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NAVAL MAN'S STRANGE WILL.
Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 155, 3 July 1922, Page 5
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