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Military service
Service number:
135635
Age:
38
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
2nd Mounted Rifles
Birth:
August 4, 1878
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 30, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private Thomas Smith Atkinson
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Collage
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Photo of Thomas Atkinson
Pte. Thomas Atkinson, as a member of the Trinity Methodist Church in Toronto, was remembered in the "Trinity War Book" published by the church in 1921. -
The Trinity War Book
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Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping 2
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of THOMAS SMITH ATKINSON
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Smith Atkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Smith Atkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Smith Atkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Smith Atkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Smith Atkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Smith Atkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Smith Atkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Smith Atkinson
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Smith Atkinson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 48 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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