Timeline for William Milton Skilling

• 20 August 1889 William Milton Skiliing born in Teeswater, Ontario, the  sixth child of Agnes Ruxton and John Skilling
• contracts rheumatic fever as a young child 
• attends elementary school and high school in Teeswater, Ontario graduating with honours
• 1911 attends Victoria College, University of Toronto 
• August 1914 WW1 is declared
• 1914 C.O.T.C. (Canadian Officers in Training) at U. of T.
• June 1915 graduates from Victoria College, U. of T. with B.A. degree class of 1T5
• 1915 recruited by the War Office for Officer Training
• 8 September 1915 declared medically fit to serve at Toronto Recruiting Depot Exhibition Place
• 13 October 1915 joins Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Forces at Toronto Recruiting Depot (Regimental #157064) as a Private in 81st Battery
• 27 Nov 1915 transfers from 81st Battery to 40th Battery 5th Div. 8th Brigade Canadian Field Artillery as a gunner  
• transfers from 40th Battery to 48th Battery “C” February 1916
• 15 March 1916 discharged at Toronto Exhibition Camp from 48th Battery C.F.A., C.E.F. to take out a Commission in the Imperial Service
• 17 April 1916 attests to 32nd Reserve Battalion CEF (Regimental #82073) at Folkstone, England
• 17 Nov 1916 discharge from 32nd Battalion 15th Reserve Battalion C.E. F. at No.2, C.D.D., London
• 17 Nov. 1916 Comm. 2nd Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery
• 8 January 1917 to France with 16th Divisional Artillery
• 16 January 1917 France joins his “A” Battery in the line (180th Brigade Royal Field Artillery)
• July 1917 Artillery School at Tilques, France (near St. Omer)
• Battle of Messines
• Battle of Wytschaete
• 3rd Battle of Ypres
• 14 August 1917 collapses and is taken to No.2 Stationary Hospital, Abbeville 
• 16 August 1917 invalided to England on the hospital ship 'Carisbrook Castle'
• 22 August 1917 The Sir John Ellerman Hospital, St. John's Lodge, Regents Park, London N.W.
• mid-October 1917 Eaton Hall, Chester, England
• Dec. 1917 73rd Division Amm. Col. Royal Field Artillery
• March 1918 No. 5 Depot, Athlone Ireland
• 5 “A” Reserve Brigade Royal Field Artillery
• May 1918 Comm. Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery
• 1919 British Army of the Rhine, 53rd Battery Royal Warwickshire Regiment
• 1920 discharged from British Army with 100% Disability Pension
• 22 April 1920 sails from Southampton to New York aboard The SS Mauretania
• 1921 applies for admission to Emmanuel Theological College and is refused
• suffers from depression
• 1923 starts The Optimist Club in Canada
• 1933 admitted to Toronto Military Orthopaedic (Christie Street Veterans’) Hospital with a stroke
• 7 Nov 1933 dies in Toronto of “acute myocarditis with pulmonary edema and valvular heart disease” age 44
• 9 Nov 1933 buried in Prospect Cemetery, Toronto (Section 17, 379 #6)