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Surname: ATKINSON
Forename(s): Robert James Shepherd
Place of Birth: Holme, Westmorland
Service No: 28802
Rank: L/Corporal
Regiment / Corps / Service: Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 2nd Battalion
Division: 8th Division
Age: ---
Date of Death: 1917-03-04
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: IV. H. 23.
CWGC Cemetery: POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY, OVILLERS-LA BOISSELLE
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: BURTON-IN-LONSDALE, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Robert James Shepherd Atkinson was the son of John Wearing and Jane Atkinson, née Shepherd and brother of Gunner John Atkinson (92066) (q.v.). Their father was born at Lupton and mother at Firbank, Westmorland.
1901 Burton-in-Lonsdale, Yorkshire Census: High Street - Robert J.S. Atkinson, aged 10 years, born Holme, Westmorland, son of John W. and Jane Atkinson.
1911 Burton-in-Lonsdale, Yorkshire Census: High Street - Robert James Shepherd Atkinson, aged 19 years, born Holme, Westmorland, son of John Wearing Atkinson, widower. [Jane, his wife, died in 1905.]
Robert was married to Letitia Nicholl Maude in 1914.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Robert J.S. Atkinson, 28802, W. York. R. K. in A. 4.3.17.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: L/Cpl Robert James Shepherd Atkinson, 28802, 2nd W. York R. Killed in Action 4.3.17.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Unpd. L/Cpl Robert James Sheperd [sic] Atkinson, 28802, 2nd Bn W. Yorks. Date and Place of Death: 4.3.17 France. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow Sole Legatee - Letitia. £6 3s. 5d.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for Robert. Name(s) on card(s): Widow: Leticia Nicholl Atkinson, born 25.3.92. Address: 4, Enfield Place, Roundhay Road, Leeds. Children: Olive Mary, born 20.4.14. George William, born 24.9.15.
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
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L/Corporal Robert James Shepherd ATKINSON
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 8th Division
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The family of John Wearing Atkinson and his late wife, Jane, c. 1906
Courtesy of Chris Roberts
Pozieres British Cemetery, Ovillers-la Boisselle
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Courtesy of Allan Hartley, High Bentham
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29 September 1916
BURTON-IN-LONSDALE - Wounded in action
Mr. John W. Atkinson, High Street, has received intimation that his son, Pte. Thomas Atkinson, Grenadier Guards, has been wounded in the right knee whilst in action in France and has been removed to hospital at the base. Two other sons-Gunner John Atkinson, R.G.A., and Pte. Shepherd Atkinson, Duke of Wellington's Regiment-are also engaged on active service in France.
30 March 1917
ATKINSON - Killed in action in France, Lance-Corporal R. J. Shepherd Atkinson, West Riding Regiment, third son of Mr. John W. Atkinson, Burton-in-Lonsdale, aged 25 years.
30 March 1917
BURTONIAN KILLED
Mrs. Atkinson, Enfield Place, Roundhay Road, Leeds, has received intimation of the death in action in France of her husband, Lance Corporal R. J. Shepherd Atkinson, West Riding Regiment. The deceased, who was 25 years of age, is the third son of Mr. John W. Atkinson, High Street, Burton-in-Lonsdale. After his schooldays at Thornton's School he was apprenticed to Mr. W. J. Harrison, butcher, and was well known in the district. In September 1913 he married Miss Letty Maude, daughter of the late Mr. Geo. E. Maude, Mount Wellington, Burton, and went to reside in Leeds, joining the Army under the Derby Scheme in April last year. He leaves two young children. Two of his brothers are also in France - John, R.G.A., and Thomas, Grenadier Guards, who has just returned after being in hospital through shrapnel wound.
14 December 1917
BURTON-IN-LONSDALE – Wounded a Second Time
Pte. Thomas Atkinson, Grenadier Guards, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jno. W. Atkinson, High Street, has been admitted into hospital in France suffering from severe wounds in the leg. He was badly wounded in the right knee some time ago. His brother, Gunner Jno. Atkinson, R.G.A., is still in England after being gassed, and his brother Private Shepherd Atkinson, Duke of Wellington’s, was killed in action in March last.
25 October 1918
BURTON-IN-LONSDALE - Death of Gunner John Atkinson
The death has taken place at Portsmouth, of Gunner Jno. Atkinson, R.G.A., from pneumonia. Formerly he was the popular secretary of the Burton Institute and a member of the local football and billiard teams. Some years ago he removed to Lancaster, where he took up an insurance agency. Of a literary turn he was popular amongst his Army friends and was billiard secretary at the Soldiers' Institute at his camp at Portsmouth at the time of his death. He always retained a keen interest in village affairs, and seemed to have a promising career before him. Much sympathy is felt for the family, another son, Shepherd, having been killed in France, whilst Thomas, late of the Grenadier Guards, has had both legs amputated as the result of wounds.
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