Private John Atkins

Army Number: 23694

Battalion: 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Daw End, Staffordshire. Husband of Maria Atkins, of Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. He enlisted Mansfield and was killed in action, 20th July 1916, during the attack on Trones Wood France, during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried Guillemont Road Cemetery, Guillemont, France. Plot 7, Row I. Grave 7.