ATKINSON, ARNOLD FRANCIS CROSSLEY, Lieut., Royal Engineers, eldest s. of the Rev. F. Atkinson, of Blackwater House, The College, Eastbourne, by his wife, Edith Blanche, dau. of the late John Crossley, J.P.; b. Musselburgh, co. Midlothian, 12 March, 1898; educ. Tyttenhanger Lodge, St. Albans; Eton (King’s Scholar), and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich; gazetted 2nd Lieut., Royal Engineers, 26 Aug. 1916; promoted Lieut. 26 Feb. 1918; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from July, 1917; proceeded to Italy in the following Dec., returning to France in April, 1918; was sent to India, being appointed to the 75th Coy., 3rd Sappers and Miners, in Nov. of the same year, and was accidentally killed at Kirgi, North-West Frontier Province, 22 Jan. 1919. Buried at Tank, North-West Frontier Province, India.. A brother officer wrote: “We all loved him in the company, a boy of extraordinary energy and courage. I remember him volunteering to blow up a bridge in No Man’s Land under heavy German fire, and doing the work most successfully,” and another: “A most promising young officer, of great capacity.” While at Eton he was head of the Army Class, gaining the Head Master’s Prize and the Hamilton Army Class Divinity Prize; unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5