Military Service

Name	Rank	Fighting Force	Conflict
Anderson, Harry E.	Private	Canadian Amry	WWII
Atkinson, Harland		U.S. Army	WWI
Atkinson, John Stewart	Corporal	U.S. Air Force	WWII
Atkinson, Leigh Kenneth	Private	Canadian Army	WWII
Atkinson, Maxine Margaret	Sergeant	Canadian Womans Army Corps	WWII
Atkinson, Norman John		1st Canadian Depot Battalion	WWI
Atkinson, Ray Clarke	Co. Sergeant Major/WO II	Canadian Corps of Military Staff Clerks	WWII
Atkinson, Robert Allen	Sergeant	U.S. Army	WWII
Atkinson, Welbury		Canadian Army	WWI
Atkinson, Wilbert George		U.S. Army	WWI
Atkinson, William Gordon		1st Canadian Depot Battalion	WWI
Atkinson, William John		9th Canadian Mounted Rifle Regiment	WWI
French, Frederick Clayton	Private	1st Canadian Depot Battalion	WWI
French, Frederick Nelson	Private	Royal Canadian Ordinance Corps	WWII
Grocott, Sydney Walter	Company Sergeant Major	Canadian Army	WWII
McDonald, John Andrew	Private	Canadian Army	WWII
Shaw, Chester Wesley		Canadian Army	WWII
Spedowski, Jordan		U.S. Air Force	Vietnam, Desert Shield/Storm

PUBLIC RELATIONS - Headquarters MD 1, London, Ontario, Canada.

London, Ont., Aug.23--The first military band to play in the historic city of Rome after the liberation was the "Drums" of the famous Royal Canadian Regiment, according to an article in "The Red Patch", the newspaper of the British Eighth Army in Italy.

Composed chiefly of boys from Western Ontario, the band thrilled the citizens of the Eternal City as they paraded throughout the ancient thoroughfares that have resounded to the martial music bands down through the centuries.

The article was sent to Staff Sergeant Clarke Atkinson of Headquarters, Military District No. 1, London, Ont., by his brother-in-law, H.E. Anderson of Chatham , a drummer in this band. It states that the band was reorganized under the direction of Sgt. G.H. Mason of Toronto and Sgt. E.W. Farmer of Woodstock. Although the "Drums" were not on the war establishment of an assault battery in the invasion of Sicily the instruments were brought along anyway.

Under Sgt. T.W. Beales of St. Thomas as the Drum-Major they put on a 45-minute display of stationary playing and countermarching for the hundreds of Italians who surged around them with shouts of "Bravo!" and "Viva Il Canadese!"


Clarke & Maxine Atkinson Marriage 1944	Earl Atkinson Jr. 1940


Leigh, Clarke & Stu Atkinson 1944	Harland Atkinson 1917


Robert Atkinson 1946	Sid Grocott


Harry Anderson	Frederick Nelson French