Regiment: Royal Canadian Engineers
Regimental Number: M17553
Rank: Corporal
Alexander Atkinson was born in Togo, Saskatchewan on December 30, 1908. His father was Albert Edward Atkinson. He lived in the Kleskun Hill and Clairmont area of Alberta since 1934 and was a farmer and a driver. At age 32, on June 23, 1940, he enlisted to serve in WWII. Alexander was married to Abbie Alice (Atkinson). He was killed in action in the Netherlands on November 1, 1944, and is buried in the Bergen-Op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery (Grave Ref: 10.B.3)
Source: Attestation Paper – Canadian Active Service Force
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) website – Find War Dead
Obituary Nov. 16, 1944 – Herald Tribune