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Adkin, William. 452 Private, 59th East Lancashire
b. 1849 Thorner, Yorkshire d. Unknown
Medal roll: Ahmed Khel.
Notes:
Sometimes as Atkin or Atkins (medal roll, census) 1881 at New Barracks, Alverstoke, Hants. 1901 at Canterbury Barracks with his 4 children. Possibly London by 1904.
Family:
father: William Adkin (1807-1849), mother: Mary Priest (remarried, John Bruce). Married Minnie Eliza Irons in 1865, Dover (d.1894, Canterbury). Children: Walter Albert (1886), Nellie (1888), Leonard William (1890), Sydney Victor Laurence (1891, Corporal West Kent Rgt., mentioned in despatches WWI). William remarried 1904.
References:
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