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Guardsman WILLIAM ATKINSON

Service Number: 2661295
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Coldstream Guards

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 10 June 1944

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BOLSENA WAR CEMETERY

III, E, 2.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Brown Atkinson and Sarah Atkinson; husband of Mary Annie Atkinson, of Burton Pidsea, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT HE LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY
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Buried or commemorated at

BOLSENA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 600
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