Source: SS Caronia Passenger Manifest. 1919.
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Family Search: When Private Joseph Atkins was born on 27 August 1890, in Shepshed, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Charles T Atkins, was 28 and his mother, Charlotte Draper, was 35. He married Hilda Rowell on 25 May 1912, in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and lived in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada in 1915 and Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom in 1921. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 25, his occupation is listed as machinist in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada. He died in 1973, in Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 83.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 