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Arthur Atkinson served initially as a Private in 1st/5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment. He later switched to the 1st/4th Battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment as a Private. He was awarded the War and Victory Medals and left the army on 27 Mar 1919. Arthur's brothers, Albert and James also served in the army during the war.
Arthur was born in Beverley in Oct 1879 and baptised at St Mary's Church on 12 Nov 1879. His father James Atkinson of Beverley married Elizabeth Hullock. Arthur had three brothers: Charles, James and Albert and two stepsisters. The family lived in Beverley but had spent a short time in Leeds.
On the death of his father in 1888 his mother remarried to John W Lawson of Little Weighton, and had three further children George, John and Robert. The family are recorded as living at Hind's Yard, Keldgate in the 1891 census and then Meaux in 1895 and Thixendale in 1901.
Arthur was initially a farm worker in 1901 recorded as a foreman on Decoy Farm, Meaux. In 1911 he was a labourer in a cake mill. He married Martha Lavinia Melbourn of Silvester Lane in Beverley at St Mary's church on 12 Oct 1903, the couple initially living in Sylvester Lane. Later living at 5 King's Head Yard and in 1914 moving to 3 Wilbert Terrace. They had four children: Mary Emily, Arthur, Sarah , and Ernest.
Martha died in the Beverley in 1930 and Arthur died in 1966
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