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Military service
Service number:
183563
Age:
22
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment)
Division:
10th Bn.
Birth:
August 31, 1894
Enlistment:
Calgary, Alberta
Death:
April 28, 1917
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Son of William Robert Franklin Atkins and Hannah E. Atkins, of Coghlan, British Columbia.
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens). -
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From the Red Deer Advocate. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lance Corporal George Francis Atkins
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Lance Corporal George Francis Atkins
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Lance Corporal George Francis Atkins
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 193 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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