Service Number:--- SX12708
Enlisted:--- 12 May 1941, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:--- Private
Last Unit:--- 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
Born:--- Belalie North, South Australia, 3 December 1915
Home Town:--- Mile End, City of West Torrens, South Australia
Schooling:--- Belalie North Primary & Jamestown High, South Australia
Parents---James Scotric and Eliza Elisabeth (née Simpson) Atkin.
Occupation:--- Porter at Adelaide Railway Station
Died:--- Died of Wounds , Papua New Guinea, 17 January 1943, aged 27 years
Cemetery:-- Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea
Grave reference A6.A.19.
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Private Scotric Anzac Robert Atkin was known as Anzac Atkin and had wavy red hair. Anzac was born on the 3rd of December 1915 to James Scotric Atkin and Eliza Elisabeth Atkin (nee Simpson) at Belalie North in South Australia. Anzac was their only child. He entered the Army on 12 May 1941. Prior to joining he lived at 17 Ross Street, Mile End, Adelaide South Australia with his mother and was a Porter at the Adelaide Railway Station. His father died in 1933 when Anzac was 17. His mother remarried (Bertrum Penhall) but didn't have any more children.
Anzac was in the 2/10 Australian Infantry Battalion. He died on the 17th of January 1943, at the age of 27, from wounds in Papua New Guinea. He was originally buried at Soputa in the temporary military cemetery (Plot C, Row D, Grave 5) and at the end of the war the graves were exhumed and transported for permanent burial. Anzac is now buried at the Bomona Cemetery Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. His grave reference is A6. A. 19.
Anzac was a only child and never married and no children.
Enlisted:--- 12 May 1941, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:--- Private
Last Unit:--- 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
Born:--- Belalie North, South Australia, 3 December 1915
Home Town:--- Mile End, City of West Torrens, South Australia
Schooling:--- Belalie North Primary & Jamestown High, South Australia
Parents---James Scotric and Eliza Elisabeth (née Simpson) Atkin.
Occupation:--- Porter at Adelaide Railway Station
Died:--- Died of Wounds , Papua New Guinea, 17 January 1943, aged 27 years
Cemetery:-- Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea
Grave reference A6.A.19.
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Private Scotric Anzac Robert Atkin was known as Anzac Atkin and had wavy red hair. Anzac was born on the 3rd of December 1915 to James Scotric Atkin and Eliza Elisabeth Atkin (nee Simpson) at Belalie North in South Australia. Anzac was their only child. He entered the Army on 12 May 1941. Prior to joining he lived at 17 Ross Street, Mile End, Adelaide South Australia with his mother and was a Porter at the Adelaide Railway Station. His father died in 1933 when Anzac was 17. His mother remarried (Bertrum Penhall) but didn't have any more children.
Anzac was in the 2/10 Australian Infantry Battalion. He died on the 17th of January 1943, at the age of 27, from wounds in Papua New Guinea. He was originally buried at Soputa in the temporary military cemetery (Plot C, Row D, Grave 5) and at the end of the war the graves were exhumed and transported for permanent burial. Anzac is now buried at the Bomona Cemetery Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. His grave reference is A6. A. 19.
Anzac was a only child and never married and no children.
Service Number:--- SX12708
Enlisted:--- 12 May 1941, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:--- Private
Last Unit:--- 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
Born:--- Belalie North, South Australia, 3 December 1915
Home Town:--- Mile End, City of West Torrens, South Australia
Schooling:--- Belalie North Primary & Jamestown High, South Australia
Parents---James Scotric and Eliza Elisabeth (née Simpson) Atkin.
Occupation:--- Porter at Adelaide Railway Station
Died:--- Died of Wounds , Papua New Guinea, 17 January 1943, aged 27 years
Cemetery:-- Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea
Grave reference A6.A.19.
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Private Scotric Anzac Robert Atkin was known as Anzac Atkin and had wavy red hair. Anzac was born on the 3rd of December 1915 to James Scotric Atkin and Eliza Elisabeth Atkin (nee Simpson) at Belalie North in South Australia. Anzac was their only child. He entered the Army on 12 May 1941. Prior to joining he lived at 17 Ross Street, Mile End, Adelaide South Australia with his mother and was a Porter at the Adelaide Railway Station. His father died in 1933 when Anzac was 17. His mother remarried (Bertrum Penhall) but didn't have any more children.
Anzac was in the 2/10 Australian Infantry Battalion. He died on the 17th of January 1943, at the age of 27, from wounds in Papua New Guinea. He was originally buried at Soputa in the temporary military cemetery (Plot C, Row D, Grave 5) and at the end of the war the graves were exhumed and transported for permanent burial. Anzac is now buried at the Bomona Cemetery Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. His grave reference is A6. A. 19.
Anzac was a only child and never married and no children.
Enlisted:--- 12 May 1941, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:--- Private
Last Unit:--- 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
Born:--- Belalie North, South Australia, 3 December 1915
Home Town:--- Mile End, City of West Torrens, South Australia
Schooling:--- Belalie North Primary & Jamestown High, South Australia
Parents---James Scotric and Eliza Elisabeth (née Simpson) Atkin.
Occupation:--- Porter at Adelaide Railway Station
Died:--- Died of Wounds , Papua New Guinea, 17 January 1943, aged 27 years
Cemetery:-- Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea
Grave reference A6.A.19.
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Private Scotric Anzac Robert Atkin was known as Anzac Atkin and had wavy red hair. Anzac was born on the 3rd of December 1915 to James Scotric Atkin and Eliza Elisabeth Atkin (nee Simpson) at Belalie North in South Australia. Anzac was their only child. He entered the Army on 12 May 1941. Prior to joining he lived at 17 Ross Street, Mile End, Adelaide South Australia with his mother and was a Porter at the Adelaide Railway Station. His father died in 1933 when Anzac was 17. His mother remarried (Bertrum Penhall) but didn't have any more children.
Anzac was in the 2/10 Australian Infantry Battalion. He died on the 17th of January 1943, at the age of 27, from wounds in Papua New Guinea. He was originally buried at Soputa in the temporary military cemetery (Plot C, Row D, Grave 5) and at the end of the war the graves were exhumed and transported for permanent burial. Anzac is now buried at the Bomona Cemetery Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. His grave reference is A6. A. 19.
Anzac was a only child and never married and no children.
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