sentences:  Atkey later returned to Toronto to work for the "Toronto Evening Telegram" as a journalist.Atkey enlisted into the British Army, joining the 2/24th Battalion, London Regiment, a Territorial Force unit that was stationed in England until sent to France in June 1916.On 19 October Atkey was commissioned as a second lieutenant (on probation) in the Royal Flying Corps, and was confirmed in his rank in September 1917.