ATKINSON, John
| Service Number: | VX10099 |
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| Enlisted: | 26 January 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 2nd/2nd Field Company / Squadron RAE |
| Born: | Sale, Victoria, Australia, 1 May 1905 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Sale High School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Textile Worker |
| Died: | Sandgate, Queensland, Australia, 4 September 1981, aged 76 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 26 Jan 1940: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX10099 | |
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| 14 Apr 1940: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX10099, 2nd/2nd Field Company / Squadron RAE, embarked Melbourne for Kantara | |
| 21 Apr 1942: | Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX10099, 2nd/2nd Field Company / Squadron RAE, embarked Middle East for Adelaide on board HMT Rajula | |
| 15 Aug 1944: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lance Corporal, VX10099 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Lance Corporal John Atkinson (Service No:VX10099) enlisted in the AIF on 26 January 1940 - graded Engine Hand and later Fitter then Blacksmith - and was attached to 2/2 Field Coy RAE when he embarked with his Unit from Melbourne for Kantara on 14 April 1940, returning to Adelaide in April 1942 on board HMT Rajula. Promoted to Lance Corporal on 8 August 1942, he was Discharged on 15 August 1944.
Jack was born in Sale, Victoria in 1905, youngest of seven children of Lennox Lett Atkinson (b1874 in Stratford, Victoria) and his first wife Isabella Blanche Crofton Staveley (b1871 in Sale, Victoria). Lennox and Isabella married in 1896 in Sale, where they settled and raised their family and Lennox was a Farmer and Grazier. Following Isabella's death in 1907, Lennox remarried in 1910, and he had a further five children with second wife Josephine. Lennox and Josephine lived in Sale, where they raised their family and Lennox was a Grazier.
Jack worked as a Labourer and Textile Worker in Melbourne where, in 1935, he married Edna Lucas (b1908 in Sydney, NSW). Jack and Edna settled in Melbourne, where they raised their family and, following his service in the AIF, Jack worked as a Wood Turner and Checker. Retiring in the early 1970s, jack and Edna moved to Sandgate, Brisbane, QLD where Jack died in 1980 and Edna in 1984.
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