Edgar Blanham Atkinson
Quartermaster 2nd Class US Navy.
He served as a Quartermaster in the Navy and served primarily aboard the USS Cummings.

QM2 Edgar Blanham Atkinson

b. 1916, TN
d. 27 January 1942, lost at sea.
Father: John Wesley Atkinson (1892-1974)
Mother: Bertha Pearl Stowers (1898-1970)
Memorial: World War II West Coast Memorial, San Francisco Co., CA
Plot: Tablets of the Missing.

This memorial is in memory of the soldiers, sailors, marines, coast guardsmen, and airmen who met their deaths in the American coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean during World War II. On the wall are inscribed the name, rank, organization and State of each of the 412 American Missing whose remains were never recovered or identified.

Note: QM2 Edgar B. Atkinson entered the service from Tennessee. He served as a Quartermaster in the Navy and served primarily aboard the USS Cummings. He was present at Pearl Harbor and survived, only to be washed overboard in a high sea while on a convoy from San Francisco to Honolulu.