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Military service
Age:
27
Rank:
Steward
Force:
Merchant Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Merchant Navy
Division:
S.S. KWASIND (Newcatle-Upon-Tyne) (104263)
Birth:
Dunston-on-Tyne, England
Death:
March 11, 1917
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Son of William Winlo Atkinson and Ann Laidman. Husband of Ida Olive Black.
On March 11, 1917, the Kwasind, a Canadian steamship, struck a mine laid by the German submarine UC-4 off Southwold, in the North Sea, and sank with twelve sailors, position 52°08'N/01 °45'E.
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Commemorated on:
Page 10 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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