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Captain Freeman Archibald Haynes ATKEY
Photo taken from the Marlborough
College Roll of Honour
Captain Freeman Archibald Haynes ATKEY.
9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Frederick Walter and Ellen Louisa
Atkey. Killed 5 July 1916. Aged 33.
Buried BECOURT MILITARY CEMETERY.
The following information is taken from the Marlborough
College Roll of Honour;-
"Freeman Archibald Haynes Atkey was educated at Roger Cholmeley's School,
Highgate, and Pembroke college, Cambridge, of which he was a Scholar. He came
to Marlborough as an Assistant Master in 1908.
He enlisted in the Middlesex Regiment in September 1914. Three months later
he was given a Commission in the 9th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
In August 1915 he went to France as a Captain. He was wounded in February
1916, but soon rejoined his Regiment.
Captain Atkey was killed by a sniper on 5 August 1916 (sic) before a successful
attack by his Company near Thiepval."
Biographical notes by Miss Jayne Ringrose, Honorary Archivist, Pembroke College;-
"Born 17 April 1883. The third son of F W Atkey of 9a Sackville Street,
London, and Clevelands, Wimbledon. Educated at Highgate School from 1986.
Entered Pembroke as a Classical Scholar in 1901. In 1904 was placed in the
1st Division of the 1st Class of the Classical Tripos. In the following year
he took a First Class in Part II of the Historical Tripos. A Chancellor's
Medallist in Classics. As an undergraduate was prominent as an oarsman. In
1914 was Sixth Form master at Marlborough College. He had been in the front
nearly a year and was wounded in the early spring."
The item, below, on Captain Atkey has been forwarded to this website by Grainne
Lenehan, the Marlborough College Archivist (<glenehan@marlboroughcollege.org>).
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