Northumberland Fusiliers 23rd Tyneside Scottish, Service no. 40664
Died of wounds: 21st October 1918, aged 29 years.
Buried: Tounai Communal Cemetery Allied Extensions Belgium.
Story
Arthur was born in Bingley in 1889, and was the son of Chancellor Atkinson, who was a Plumber, and Sarah Newbold. He married Marion Clark before the War at Holy Trinity Church, Bingley on 16th December 1911. Arthur was living at 2 Emsley Street, and was a Warf Twister. The couple had a daughter Margery in 1914 and a son Jack in 1915. Marion’s father passed away in 1913, her son in 1915, her husband in 1918, and her mother in 1921.
Tounai, where Arthur is buried, was captured by the Germans on 23rd August 1914, in spite of resistance from the French Territorial Brigade, and the town remained in German hands until it was entered by the 47th London and 74th yeomanry Divisions on 8th November 1918. The 51st Highland casualty Clearing Station arrived on 14th November and remained until the 20th July 1919.
Margery Atkinson married John Tetley in 1938, and their son is Patricia Tetley’s husband.
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