Name JOHN ISMAY ATKINSON Birth 1895 Earsdon Northumberland Enlistment/Occupation Unknown Death, date, location 29/06/1916 Killed in action (Posted to France 09/09/1915(medal rolls)) Age 21 Unit, rank, service no: Lieutenant Northumberland Fusiliers 13th Bn THE LONDON GAZETTE, 15 DECEMBER, 1914. The under mentioned Cadets and ex~ Cadets of the Officers Training Corps to be Temporary Second Lieutenants. Dated 14th December, 1914: — John Atkinson Family acknowledgement Son of John Ismay Atkinson and Ada Margaret CWGC Atkinson, of 38, St. George's Terrace, (CWGC) Family The name Ismay’ had been used for several ‘John generations of sons in the Atkinson family. John Ismay Atkinson (1895-1916) who was killed in action at Fricourt, France in World War I was the only son of John Ismay Atkinson (1864-1906) of Ovingham and Ada Margaret Maddison who married in 1893. He was also grandson of Dr. John Ismay Atkinson (1816-1883) who was village doctor for the Wylam locality and his wife Hannah (nee Armstrong 1826-1908) of Heddon on the Wall. Dr.Atkinson and his wife Hannah are recorded in the 1851 census living at West House, Ovingham Road, Wylam Dr. Atkinson and his wife had nine children of whom John Ismay (1864-1906) was the sixth. He has been traced in the 1871 census as a 7 year old staying on his maternal grandmother’s farm at
Name JOHN ISMAY ATKINSON Birth 1895 Earsdon Northumberland Enlistment/Occupation Unknown Death, date, location 29/06/1916 Killed in action (Posted to France 09/09/1915(medal rolls)) Age 21 Unit, rank, service no: Lieutenant Northumberland Fusiliers 13th Bn THE LONDON GAZETTE, 15 DECEMBER, 1914. The under mentioned Cadets and ex~ Cadets of the Officers Training Corps to be Temporary Second Lieutenants. Dated 14th December, 1914: — John Atkinson Family acknowledgement CWGC Son of John Ismay Atkinson and Ada Margaret Atkinson, of 38, St. George's Terrace, (CWGC) Family The name ‘John Ismay’ had been used for several generations of sons in the Atkinson family. John Ismay Atkinson (1895-1916) who was killed in action at Fricourt, France in World War I was the only son of John Ismay Atkinson (1864-1906) of Ovingham and Ada Margaret Maddison who married in 1893. He was also grandson of Dr. John Ismay Atkinson (1816-1883) who was village doctor for the Wylam locality and his wife Hannah (nee Armstrong 1826-1908) of Heddon on the Wall. Dr.Atkinson and his wife Hannah are recorded in the 1851 census living at West House, Ovingham Road, Wylam Dr. Atkinson and his wife had nine children of whom John Ismay (1864-1906) was the sixth. He has been traced in the 1871 census as a 7 year old staying on his maternal grandmother’s farm at
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