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Military service
Service number:
761119
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
38th Bn.
Birth:
October 13, 1888
Millom, Cumberland, England
Enlistment:
March 2, 1916
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
April 9, 1917
France
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Edward Atkinson of Millom, England. Spouse of Agnes Scott Atkinson Donaldson of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Additional citations
British War Medal and Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Harry Ellerton Atkinson
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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) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Harry Ellerton Atkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Harry Ellerton Atkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Harry Ellerton Atkinson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 193 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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