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{{Personnel
|id=1288
|Surname and forenames=Atkinson John James
|Army number=4456271
|Rank=Pte
|Date of birth=Born 1906/07.
|Age=33
|Unit=Joined The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date, but probably Spring 1939.  Posted ? 9th Bn DLI.  Posted ? 12th Bn DLI - probably 1/9/1939.  Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, posted 1 TS.  Served BEF.  KILLED in ACTION -  B.E.F. 20/5/40, Serial No. 589 dated 10/12/44 while with 1st Tyneside Scottish.
|Joined Brigade=Probably 1/9/1939.
|Died/Killed in action=20-May-40
|Home address=Son of Joseph and Ellen Atkinson, Husband of Martha Atkinson, Deckham, Gateshead.   Commemorated Column 91, Dunkirk Memorial.
|Source table=1TS
}}

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