The Second Anglo-Afghan War Database Project

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William Adkin

Regiment: 59th East Lancashire

Birth: 1849 Thorner, Yorkshire

Rank: Private 452

Death: 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.

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