In Fulford Cemetery, York is the Commonwealth War Grave of Major Surtees Atkinson, M.C., serving with the Royal Field Artillery, who died 07/02/1918.

The son of John Atkinson, of Newbiggin, Hexham, Northumberland and the husband of Margaret Atkinson, of Bootham Grange, York.

In February 1916 he married Miss Margaret Guy, daughter of the Rev. T.E.B. Guy, Vicar of Fulford, and Mrs. Guy. Her sister Christabel Guy was bridesmaid. The best man was Captain J.E. Atkinson, 3rd Hussars, brother of the bridegroom.

The Newcastle Daily Chronicle 11/02/1916 reported his wedding.

The Newcastle Daily Chronicle 09/02/1918 reports:
DEATH OF MAJOR SURTEES ATKINSON.
News was received on Thursday by the Misses Atkinson, of Newbiggen, Hexhamshire, that their nephew, Major Surtees Atkinson, M.C., Royal Field Artillery second son of the late Mr. John Atkinson, J.P., of Newbiggen, and Fulford House, York, has died in a military hospital in England, while undergoing an operation. He had been at the Front since the commencement of the war.

The Newcastle Journal 20/02/1918 reports :-
MAJOR SURTEES ATKINSON.
Major Surtees Atkinson, M.C., R.F.A.. whose death has just been announced, was a son the late Mr John Atkinson, of Newbiggin, near Hexham, and Fulford House, York, and a nephew of the late Captain Atkinson. who for many years presided the Hexham Bench of Magistrates.

He joined the R.F.A. in 1908 from Woolwich, and went out France with the Expeditionary Force in 1914. Promoted captain few months later, he became commander of a battery in the following spring. He was subsequently mentioned in dispatches, and awarded the Military Cross.

Major Atkinson came home suffering from the illness which caused his death. He was a keen sportsman, won success in point-to-point racing. He also took an interest boxing and hunting.

Surtees Atkinson is remembered in Hexham on H51.03, H51.06 and H51.26 and Whitley Chapel on W136.01.