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Walter Atkinson

Birth15/07/1908 - Barnsley, Yorkshire, England (Canal Bank Cottages, Smithies Lane, Barnsley Urban District
Death05 July 1944 - Killed in action off the D-Day beaches on the Normandy coast, France, whilst patrolling aboard the minesweeper H. M. Trawler Ganilly which was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-390 during WW2
MotherPriscilla Sanderson
FatherHerbert Atkinson

Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England (Canal Bank Cottages, Smithies Lane, Barnsley Urban District on 15/07/1908 to Herbert Atkinson and Priscilla Sanderson. Walter Atkinson married Phyllis Brooks (Brookes). He passed away on 05 July 1944 in Killed in action off the D-Day beaches on the Normandy coast, France, whilst patrolling aboard the minesweeper H. M. Trawler Ganilly which was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-390 during WW2.

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Herbert Atkinson
1889 - 1916
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Priscilla Sanderson
1890 - 1965
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Phyllis Brooks (Brookes)
1909 - 1964

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