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BORN 6 February 1874
DIED 21 February 1900 AGE 26
VC Won 18 February 1900 AGE 26
Place VC Won Battle Of Paardeberg
War/Campaign The Second Boer War
Name Alfred Atkinson No. 3264
VC Issue No. 459 Awards VC
Regiment Yorkshire (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own) Regiment, 1st Battalion
Later Green Howards
Now The Yorkshire Regiment
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Place Of Death Near Paardeberg, South Africa
Buried/Location Ashes Gruisbank British Cemetery, Paardeberg, nr Petrusberg, west of Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Unmarked grave Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 8 August 1902
VC Presented Registered post to his family on the 30 April 1902
Memorials
Named on memorial at Gruisbank British Cemetery, Paardeberg, Free State, South Africa
P Named on Victoria Cross memorial outside Leeds City Art Gallery, Cetenary Square, Leeds, Yorkshire
P Named on Anglo Boer War Yorkshire Memorial, near York Minster, York, Yorkshire
P Named on Princess of Wales Own Yorkshire Regiment, Boer War Memorial, York
P Atkinson Avenue, Richmond, Yorkshire
By The Way…
A road was named after him at the old barracks in Richmond, now nice residential properties
VC Held By
Green Howards Regiment Museum, Trinity Church Square, The Market Place, Richmond, Yorkshire, England
