Private James Thomas Atkin

Army Number: 200257 (formerly 1920)

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Whitwick, Leicestershire. Son of James Henry and Ruth Atkin, of 27 Park Drive, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. He enlisted at Ilkeston, went to France on 1st March 1915 and was killed in action, 1st July 1916, on the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France. Plot 1, Row D, Grave 13.

Private James Thomas Atkin is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Ilkeston War Memorial, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.