Name
Edward Richard James Atkins
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/07/1917
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
238863
Royal Engineers
10th Light Railway Operating Coy
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CANADA FARM CEMETERY
I. F. 24.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
BELOVED HUSBAND OF CAROLINE ATKINS GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans, King Road (New), Street Memorial, St Albans
Pre War
Son of George and Elizabeth Atkins; husband of Caroline Atkins, of 39, King's Rd., St. Albans, Herts. Native of Northampton.
The Soldiers Died In The Great War database records that he was born in Northampton and he enlisted in Croydon, Surrey.
Wartime Service
Killed in action.
Additional Information
SDITGW records his service number as 38863(sic)
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes
