On Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium  is the name of 240334 Private Edward Atkinson, serving with the 1st/5th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers who died 12/04/1918.

The son of Matthew and Margaret Ann Atkinson and the husband of S. Oyston (formerly Atkinson), of 8, Clavering Avenue, Dunston on Tyne, Gateshead.

In Christ Church churchyard is a family headstone which reads:

In Loving Memory of
Matthew, beloved husband of
Margaret Ann Atkinson
who died Jan. 29th 1942
aged 74 years.

Also their sons
Thomas, killed in action in France,
Nov. 15th 1916, aged 23 years.

Edward, killed in action in France,
April 12th 1916, aged 26 years.

Edward Atkinson and his brother Thomas are remembered in Walker on W2.21