Marmaduke William ATKINSON

ATKINSON, Marmaduke William

Service Number: 65
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 1st Victorian Mounted Rifles
Born: Sale, Victoria, Australia, 1879
Home Town: Sale, Gippsland, Victoria
Schooling: Unknown
Occupation: Grazier
Died: Enteric Fever, Smithfield, South Africa, 27 June 1900
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Boer War Memorial (Queen Victoria Square), Sale Boer War Memorial, Sale Private Marmaduke Atkinson Memorial Plaque
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Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899: Involvement Private, 65, 1st Victorian Mounted Rifles
28 Oct 1899: Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 65, 1st Victorian Mounted Rifles, SS Medic, Melbourne
27 Jun 1900: Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 65, 1st Victorian Mounted Rifles

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Marmaduke William ATKINSON was born in Sale, Victoria in 1879

His parents were Thomas ATKINSON & Martha LETT

He is buried in Smithfield Cemetery in South Africa

Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

One more of our soldiers in South Africa, Private Marmaduke W. Atkinson, of the First Victorian Contingent, Mounted Rifles unit, has succumbed to enteric fever. A cablegram conveying the information has reached Sir John Madden from Sir Alfred Milner. Atkinson, the message stated, died at Smithfield on 29th June. Private Atkinson, before joining the First Contingent, was a grazier at Sale. His mother resides at Olive Grange, Sale, and the sad intelligence has been conveyed to her. The deceased soldier was in the same group with the Premier's son, Private M'Lean. 
Weekly Times (Melbourne), 14 July 1900

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