Gosford District Casualties of World War One

Atkins, Alfred Stanley Service Number 5970A

Died of illness 27th December 1916 Military Hospital Fargo, England

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And Vivienne Tranter

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NAME ATKINS-Alfred Stanley

SERVICE NO 5970A

UNIT 3rd

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RANK Private

AGE at Enlistment 24yrs 7½mths

PLACE OF BIRTH Urunga, Bellinger River, NSW

ADDRESS Urunga, Bellinger River, NSW

OCCUPATION Labourer

DATE OF ENLISTMENT 3 Jan 1916

PLACE OF ENLIST-MENT

PREVIOUS SERVICE Two years Colonial Forces

NEXT OF KIN Brother-Joseph J Atkins – Urunga, Bellinger River, Nth Coast NSW (parents deceased)

PHYSICAL DESCRIP-TION

3 Jan 1916 Bellingen, NSW

Height-5’ 9”.Weight -140lbs . Chest 33 extended

Complexion-Fair. Eyes-Grey/Blue. Hair-Light Brown. Only right testicle in scrotum Left un-descended. Prominent left chest hardly amounting to deformity. (underdeveloped) ?

RELIGION C of E

EMBARKED “Wiltshire”

DISEMBARKED

NOTES Admitted (ship A18 “Wiltshire”) hospital 23 Aug 1916-VD Mumps- disem-barked Fremantle. Re-embarked “Suffolk” to Plymouth

WOUNDED/ILLNESS Bronco/ Pneumonia

DIED 27 Dec 1916- Bronco-Pneumonia, Military Hospital Fargo England

BURIED 29 Dec 1916-Durrington Cemetery Wiltshire, Gve 138 (Right side Cemetery path).

MEDALS British War Medal-45602, Memorial Plaque -302245.

DEPENDANTS

PERSONAL EFFECTS To brother

WILL

CORRESPONDENCE

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