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Military Information

  • Date of enlistment: 10.01.1916
  • Place of enlistment: Toronto, Ontario.
  • Service no: 770008
  • Rank: Private
  • Service Occupation:
  • Awards:
  • Regiment/Service: Canadian Infantry
  • Unit/Ship: 18th Battalion
  • Place of Death: Belgium
  • Age at Death: 31
  • Date of Death: 09.11.1917
  • Burial Country: Belgium
  • Cemetery: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres
  • Grave/Mem Ref no: Panel 10-26-28

Personal Information

  • Date of Birth: 21.05.1886
  • Place of Birth: Lancaster, England
  • Address:
  • Occupation: Painter
  • Mother:
  • Father:
  • Siblings:
  • Spouse:

    Bella MacGregor Akins, 103 Brooklyn Ave, Toronto

  • Children:

More about James Akins

For more information visit James Memorial and James Regimental Record and Circumstances of Death Register

Although James was not originally from Dundee his name was included in the original Honour Roll for Dundee and there are also references to James in Dundee Peoples Journal 12/1/1918 page 16.

James Akins   770008   Canadian Infantry

AKINS―Killed in action, November 9th 1917, James (Jim), Canadians, dearly beloved husband of Bella Akin, (nee Bella MacGregor Milne), late of Lochee, Scotland. – Inserted by his loving wife.

Dundee People’s Journal 12th January 1918

Information researched and supplied by Gary Thomson, additional information kindly suppled by  Michael Caldwell

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