On the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, is the name of 23/826 Private Alexander Atkinson, serving with the 23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, who died 01/07/1916.

Morpeth Herald 04/08/1916 carries the following:
Mrs Neill, of Bowes Street, Blyth, has received the following letter from an officer of the Tyneside Scottish in regard to her missing brothers:-

Dear Madam,- I am only too ready to furnish you with any information at hand about your two brothers, but I am afraid this is only too small. … Private Alex Atkinson was reported wounded, but as you have not heard from him, and we have not been notified of his being in hospital, I am afraid there is little hope that he has escaped alive. …

Morpeth Herald 27/04/1917 carries the following:
Private Alex. Atkinson was … killed on the same day [as] his brother, Private Walter Atkinson, N.F., of Bowes Street, Blyth.

Alexander Atkinson is remembered at Blyth on B42.24