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In memory of:

Private James Atwill

Military service

Service number: 1914
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Division: 1ST Bn.
Birth: St-John's, Newfoundland & Labrador
Enlistment: October 13, 1915 St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador
Death: July 1, 1916 Beaumont Hamel, France

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: Sp. Mem. 37.
Additional information

Son of Samuel and Charlotte (Bartlett) Atwill of St. John's, Newfoundland. Brother of Florence, Katie, Helen, Nellie, Richard and Duncan

Brother of Private Duncan Atwill, who died on March 11, 1918 while serving with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment.

Memorials

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In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 8 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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Service record(s)

Digitized personnel record available through Library and Archives Canada.

ANCRE BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France

ANCRE BRITISH CEMETERY is in the Department of the Somme, about 2 kilometres south of the village of Beaumont-Hamel.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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