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Lance Corporal ERNEST EDWARD ATKINSON

Service Number: 27814
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The King's (Liverpool Regiment)

12th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 October 1916

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GROVE TOWN CEMETERY, MEAULTE

I. O. 5.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Tom Edwin and the late Emily Atkinson.
  • Personal Inscription OH HOW WE MISS HIM ONE OF THE BEST IT WAS FOR HIS COUNTRY'S GOOD, HE WAS SLAIN.
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Buried or commemorated at

GROVE TOWN CEMETERY, MEAULTE
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1395
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