2nd Lieutenant H Atkinson DSO Cheshire Regiment

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Reference WMO/132768

Address:

Audlem Cemetery

Cheshire Street

Audlem

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Addition to Gravestone
Materials:
  • Stone Limestone
Lettering: Raised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: In the cemetery up the street from the church, just inside the churchyard and alongside the path is a family memorial in the shape of a recumbent cross, panel on one side inscribed in lead lettering in memory of 2nd Lieutenant H Atkinson, Cheshire Regiment. After the War, as no grave could be found Lt. Atkinson's father had a tombstone laid where it was believed his son had fallen.In 1923 the body was found and reinterred in Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery (Grave XIII. E. 12) because it was still accepting burials. The Cheshire Regiment had the redundant stone moved to Violaines Communal Cemetery, adding the inscription:- "In February 1923 his body (identified by his disc) was found, together with that of an unknown soldier of the Cheshire Regiment, about 400 yards from where his stone was originally erected in a neighbouring field. Both were removed under direction of the Imperial War Graves Commission, to the Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez. Removal of the stone having therefore become necessary it has passed into the possession of the Cheshire Regiment and has been re-erected in this cemetery as a perpetual memorial to all others of the Regiment who are still among the missing". In 1995 the Cheshire Regiment restored it and repainted the weathered inscription after some lobbying by the Lancs and Cheshire Branch of the Western Front Association. (From the website of the 1st Battalion, the Cheshire Regiment)
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Also in memory of Henry Noel Atkinson DSO/2nd Lieut (Special Reserve) Cheshire Regiment/son of Arthur and Ursula May Atkinson/born at Audlem vicarage Christmas Day 1888/served in the Great Uropean War, officially reported/as missing, and subsequently assumed to have been/ killed in action, at Violaines, on October 22nd 1914 God proved him,and found him, worthy for himself

Henry Noel Atkinson

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