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Military service
Service number:
108068
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles (Saskatchewan Regt.)
Birth:
November 9, 1887
Enlistment:
Medicine Hat, Alberta
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Charles P. and Barbara Atkinson, of 1165, Main St., Moncton, New Brunswick; husband of Gertrude Atkinson, of 2104, Maple St., Vancouver, B.C.
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Newspaper clipping
MEDICINE HAT NEWS THURSDAY OCTOBER 5 1916 -
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
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 1 issue of the Moncton (New Brunswick) Transcript newspaper c.1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private George Nelson Atkinson
Digital gallery of
Private George Nelson Atkinson
Digital gallery of
Private George Nelson Atkinson
Digital gallery of
Private George Nelson Atkinson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 48 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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