Raymond John ATKINS

ATKINS, Raymond John

    Service Number: 499
    Enlisted: 25 February 1915, Enlisted at Adelaide
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 27th Infantry Battalion
    Born: Gladstone, South Australia, 13 July 1894
    Home Town: Gladstone, Northern Areas, South Australia
    Schooling: Gladstone Public School, South Australia
    Occupation: Labourer
    Died: Killed in Action, Pozieres, Somme Sector, France, 4 August 1916, aged 22 years
    Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
    No known grave Commemorated on the Gladstone War Memorial, SA, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
    Memorials: Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gladstone Memorial Fountain, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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    World War 1 Service

    25 Feb 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 499, 27th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Adelaide
    4 Aug 1916: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 499, 27th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 499 awm_unit: 27 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1916-08-04
    Date unknown: Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 499, 27th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    Son of James Haynes Atkins and Annie (nee Clavin) Atkins; brother of Elsie Ena Mary Atkins, Gladys Trueda Atkins, James Leslie Atkins, Margaret Elizabeth Atkins, Ella Kathleen Atkins, Francis Cryle Atkins, Laurence Joseph Atkins, Ambrose roy Atkins and  Haynes Mashford Atkins

    Medals: 1914-15 Star,  British War Medal. Victory Medal

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