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Serjeant WILLIAM HENRY ATKIN

Service Number: 43926
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

87th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 05 April 1918

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GEZAINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

II. J. 18.

France

05888 16.06.22 Both may benefit from a clean so I will return to complete this on both headstones.

Photographer: Mark Slack

Cromford (St. Mary) Churchyard

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

Cromford (St. Mary) Churchyard

Photographer: Andrew Fetherston

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Husband of Edith Atkin, of Waterloo House, Ruswarp, Whitby, Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription PEACE, PERFECT PEACE.
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Buried or commemorated at

GEZAINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 678
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