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The Roll of Honour listed his address as Reform Street, and that he died on 1/4/1919 as the result of War service, after discharge. It listed that he had served in an unspecified Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment, which differs from official records.
(Arthur Atkinson in fact served in the Middlesex Regiment and in the Labour Corps. Arthur was born in 1891. On the 1901 census he was aged 9, living with his parents John Thomas and Ruth Atkinson at Long Row, Eye Green in Northamptonshire; his place of birth was given as Eye. On the 1911 census he was lodging at Lower Farm in Holme, Northamptonshire, working as a wagoner. Arthur's Army file records that he was aged 24 years and 6 months, living with his parents at Thorney Cottages in Eye Green and working as a threshing machine feeder, when he enlisted at Northampton on 6/6/1916. Assigned the regimental number 3518, he was posted to the 27th Battalion Middlesex Regiment as a Private on 7/6/1916; he transferred to the 6th Battalion Middlesex Regiment on 23/9/1916. He landed in France on 12/10/1916, at which time he transferred to the 4th Battalion Middlesex Regiment. He sustained a gunshot wound to his face on 11/10/1917. While on leave after that injury, he married Ellen Elizabeth Cohen on 11/12/1917 at Northampton Parish Church; they moved to 17 Reform Street in Peterborough. He returned to serve with the 4th Battalion Middlesex Regiment in France, where he was gassed on 5/7/1918, resulting in his return to the UK on 14/7/1918. Following treatment for that injury at the War Hospital in Clopton, Stratford on Avon, he was granted a furlough from 10th to 16th August 1918. On 19/10/1918 Arthur was transferred to 683 Agricultural Company of the Labour Corps, at which time his regimental number changed to 663915; his Medal Index Card inaccurately recorded that he was assigned to the 682 Agricultural Company. The Captain of the Labour Corps wrote that Private Arthur Atkinson was "unsuitable for this Depot: he is weak, sleeps badly, has a cardiac murmur & is unable to march. He is not likely to become an efficient soldier"; the officer recommended that Arthur should be sent to the Reserve unit for dispersal. Arthur was honourably discharged on 5/2/1919, being unfit for War service due to his wounds, and was awarded a 50% pension; he also received the Silver War Badge serial number B113896. Arthur died within two months of leaving the Army. His death certificate records that he died aged 27 on 1/4/1919 at 17 Reform Street in Peterborough, from cerebral haemorrhage and hemiplegia due to having been "Buried and Gassed in France"; his widow Ellen registered the death. Arthur was buried in Eye Cemetery; his service file records that his widow was awarded an Army pension.
Arthur Atkinson is not currently recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. As his death certificate verifies that death was attributable to the gas wounds he sustained in France, the evidence has now been forwarded to CWGC asking them to consider adding him to their WW1 casualty registers.