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Menin Gate, Ypres Menin Gate, Ypres
First Name: George Emule Last Name: ATKINS
Date of Death: 17/02/1915 Lived/Born In: Barnsbury
Rank: Rifleman Unit: King's Royal Rifle Corps4
Memorial Site: Menin Gate, Ypres

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Age-35

Born-Holloway

 

On 15th February, 1915, the 4th King’s Royal Rifle Corps battalion of 80 Brigade, 27th Division left their billets in Dickebusch and moved to trenches at St Eloi, just to the south of Ypres where they stayed until relieved on 17th February. There was little activity by the enemy on 17th February but one trench was shelled and two men were killed, one of whom was George Atkins.

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