On the Helles Memorial, Turkey (including Gallipoli) is the name of 16371 Private David Atkinson serving with the 8th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers who died 19/08/1915.

CWGC gives his name as David Atchinson, some other military records give David Atchison.

Acknowledgments: Margaret Allison

Derek Johnstone has provided the following:

David Atkinson was born in 1881 at North Seaton, Northumberland. His parents were Ralph and Elizabeth Atkinson.

In the 1901 Census David Atkinson was shown living in his father’s house at North Seaton. His father at this time was 63 years old and David was 20.

David lived at Choppington, Northumberland in 1911 at 22, Single (Second) Row, his brother in law’s house, where he was single and employed as a bootmaker. The census record shows him to be 30 years old.

David Atkinson is remembered in Ashington on A17.01 (A17.27) and A17.43 and in Choppington on C36.01 and C36.04.