William Foster ATKINSON

William Foster ATKINSON Private 15622, 11th Lonsdale Battalion, Border Regiment, killed in action
1 July 1916. Son of Mark and Elizabeth in 1911 he was residing with his parents at Murton Appleby, Westmorland. He joned the army aged 19 years and 2 months, lived at Murton , occupation, Labourer. His mother was his next of kin and at some stage she moved to Cressbrook, Kirby Longsdale. She remarried to a Mr Graham and lived at 29 Coronation Street, Bernard Castle, County Durham. Commemorated on the Murton Cum Hilton War Memorial, Cumbria. At rest in Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille, Somme France.