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Personal data

• Name ATKINSON
• Initials ER
• First name ERROL RICHARD
• Place of birth Angaston
• Country South Australia
• Last residence Angaston
• Family Son of Richard Thomas and Kezia Atkinson, of Angaston, South Australia.
• Profession Labourer

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Enlisted 25 August 1915, Adelaide, South Australia
• Service number 1670
• Rank Private
• Medals 1914/15 Star Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 32nd Bn. Australian Infantry
• Division - Brigade 8th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 5th Australian Division
• National force A.I.F.
• Other data related to military career Embarked Adelaide 11 January 1916; to France 15 February 1917

Death

• Wounded 9 December 1916, shrapnel wound right elbow and forehead
  27 September 1917
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds fractured right thigh and leg, 1st Anzac Corps Central Bureau
• Date of death 27 September 1917
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXIV - G - 9A

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