Private Osborn Atkinson

Army Number: 76349 (formerly 40276 and 016433 Army Ordnance Corps)

Battalion: 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Misson, Nottinghamshire and lived at Bawtry, Yorkshire. Son of John and Annie Atkinson, of “The Green”, Mission He was a sandpit labourer prior to enlisting at Woolwich. He went to France on 28th August 1916 and was transferred to the 12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment on 11th January 1917 and posted to the 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment 2nd February 1917. He was killed in action, 22nd June 1917, by German shellfire whilst serving in the trenches near the Yser canal bank, Belgium.

Buried Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 1, Row C, Grave 20.

Private Osborn Atkinson is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. John’s Church War Memorial, Misson, Nottinghamshire.