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Description: | Collection of papers relating to his service with the 8th Battalion Rifle Brigade and his death in action on 16 September 1917, including an ms letter (1p) to his wife, 16 July 1917; an ms letter (1p) from a friend also serving on the Western Front, 2 September 1917; an ms letter of condolence (2pp) written to Mrs Atkins by the Reverend G Kennedy Tucker, Church of England Chaplain at the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station where Robert Atkins died, 21 September 1917; Attestation form, 12 December 1915, and an official notification of his death, 23 September 1917; ts letter from the Ministry of Pensions, 3 October 1917, and an official postcard notification of the medals posthumously awarded to him, 18 February 1921; and a photograph of Mrs E L Atkins with her eldest child in 1914.
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Catalogue date 1977-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 8th Battalion British Army Rifle Brigade | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Atkins, Robert | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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