Whitby High School
Battlefields Tour 18-21st March 2006

France - Vimy Ridge, Albert and Somme Tour - Monday 20th March


Private Frederick Atkinson

2nd Battalion South Lancashire Regiment, Died 24 October 1914, Aged 32



Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France

Private Frederick Atkinson is remembered on Panel 23 within the Le Touret Memorial. He was killed in Action while holding the Southern Salient near Ypres against the German 6h Army.

Le Touret Memorial is located at the east end of Le Touret Military Cemetery, on the south side of the Bethune-Armentieres main road. The Memorial takes the form of a loggia surrounding an open rectangular court. The court is enclosed by three solid walls and on the eastern side by a colonnade. East of the colonnade is a wall and the colonnade and wall are prolonged northwards (to the road) and southwards, forming a long gallery. Small pavilions mark the ends of the gallery and the western corners of the court. The names of those commemorated are listed on panels set into the walls of the court and the gallery, arranged by Regiment, Rank and alphabetically by surname within the rank. Over 13,000 names are listed on the memorial of men who fell in this area before 25 September 1915 and who have no known grave.

The Memorial in Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue, is one of those erected by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to record the names of the officers and men who fell in the Great War and whose graves are not known. It serves the area enclosed on the North by the River Lys and a line drawn from Estaires to Fournes, and on the South by the old Southern boundary of the First Army about Grenay; and it covers the period from the arrival of the II Corps in Flanders in 1914 to the eve of the Battle of Loos. It does not include the names of officers and men of Canadian or Indian regiments; they are found on the Memorials at Vimy and Neuve-Chapelle.

Private Frederick Atkinson is the Great Grandfather of Luke Atkinson (11T 2006)

Casualty Details

Name: ATKINSON, FREDERICK
Initials: F
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: South Lancashire Regiment
Unit Text: 2nd Bn.
Age: 32
Date of Death: 24/10/1914
Service No: 7268
Additional information: Son of Charlie and Rachel Atkinson; husband of Mary Atkinson, of Chapel Houses, Marple, Cheshire.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 23.
Memorial: LE TOURET MEMORIAL


Certificate

In Memory of
Private FREDERICK ATKINSON

7268, 2nd Bn., South Lancashire Regiment
who died age 32
on 24 October 1914

Son of Charlie and Rachel Atkinson; husband of Mary Atkinson, of Chapel Houses, Marple, Cheshire.
Remembered with honour

LE TOURET MEMORIAL

Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission


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