Percy Edward ATKINS

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Service Number:	NX71911
Enlisted:	25 March 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Texas, Queensland, Australia, 5 August 1916
Home Town:	Bellata, Narrabri, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Dysentery and Inanition whilst a prisoner of the Japanese, Thailand, 18 October 1943, aged 27 years
Cemetery:	Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Burial reference: - Plot 1, Row A, Grave 42. Personal Inscription: - "GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, NX71911
25 Mar 1941:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX71911
16 Feb 1942:	Imprisoned Malaya/Singapore, Died from illness.

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Parents: - Edward Charles Gerald (Ted) Atkins and Sarah Ann Greentree married 1914, Inverell, New South Wales.