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Military service
Service number:
F/40870
Age:
19
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
September 16, 1922
Riverhead, Nova Scotia
Death:
December 23, 1941
Hong Kong
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Column 24.
Additional information
Son of Winford C. and Mabel E. Atwood, of Barrington, Shelburne Co., Nova Scotia. Brother of Fireman Norman Burnell Atwood, who died on May 30, 1942, while serving with the Canadian Merchant Navy.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Percy Coleman Atwood
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Photo of PERCY COLEMAN ATWOOD
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Memorial
Rifleman PERCY COLEMAN ATWOOD is one of 22 members of the Royal Rifles of Canada, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps who are commemorated on this panel of the Sai Wan Memorial. He was one of 290 Canadian soldiers killed during the defense of Hong Kong, from December 8th to December 25th, 1941. -
Inscription
Dedicatory inscription of the SAI WAN MEMORIAL. This memorial bears the names of more than 2,000 Commonwealth servicemen, including 228 Canadians. -
Newspaper clipping
Rifleman PERCY COLEMAN ATWOOD was reported as Missing In Action in the Canadian Army's 243rd overseas casualty list of the war published in the Globe and Mail on January 8, 1943. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong.
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Canada and the Defence of Hong Kong.
Source: Veterans Affairs Canada. -
Photo of Percy Atwood
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Percy Coleman Atwood
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Percy Coleman Atwood
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Percy Coleman Atwood
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Percy Coleman Atwood
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Percy Coleman Atwood
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Percy Coleman Atwood
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Percy Coleman Atwood
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 22 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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