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In St Bartholomew's Church, Armley.


........................................................Love the Brotherhood
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........................................................TO THE GLORY OF GOD
............................IN THANKFUL MEMORY OF THE SOLDIERS FROM ARMLEY
..............................WHO DIED IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR A.S, 1900-1902.
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THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT..........PTE EBENEZER PAY..................................JUNE.2.1901.
.....................................................................PTE ROBERT WILSON...................... ..NOVEMBER.13.1900.
THE YORKSHIRE REGIMENT....................SERGT ALFRED ATKINSON V.C...........FEBRUARY.27.1900.
.....................................................................LANCE-CORPL WALTER CHAPLIN.........MARCH.16.1901.
.....................................................................PTE ALBERT SMITH................................JANUARY.16.1900.
.....................................................................PTE THOMAS HENRY WATKINSON..........JULY.28.1900.
THE WEST RIDING RIDING REGIMENT....LANCE-CORPL WALTER SMITH.................MAY.31.1901.
THE YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY..........PTEJOHN WILLIAM CARTER......................MAY.19.1900.
THE KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS............PTE WILLIAM COOK...................................MAY.25.1900.
THE DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY................PTE ISAAC ROWING..............................FEBRUARY.6.1900.
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DURING THE BATTLE OF PAARDEBURG, FEBRUARY.18.1900, SERGEANT A. ATKINSON FIRST BATTALION YORKSHIRE
REGIMENT, WENT OUT SEVEN TIMES, UNDER HEAVY AND CLOSE FIRE, TO OBTAIN WATER FOR THE WOUNDED.......AT THE
SEVENTH ATTEMPT HE WAS WOUNDED IN THE HEAD, AND DIED A FEW DAYS AFTERWARDS............LONDON GAZETTE
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...............................................................Honour the King.









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To the left of the plaque is Honour all men. and to the right is Near God.

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....Out of the ten men of the 1st Durhams killed at Vaal Krantz seven were Reservists who were recalled last October. Private J. Rowing rejoined from the Leeds Post Office; Private J. Fawcett belonged to York.
Yorkshire Evening Post, Thursday 15th February 1900


FELL AT PAARDEBERG,
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A LEEDS MAN'S GALLANTRY AND DEATH.
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WOULD HAVE RECEIVED THE VICTORIA CROSS HAD HE LIVED.
....Mr. James Atkinson, 18, Strawberry Road, Tong Road, Armley, has received the following letter relating to his son's death from Captain M. E. Gunthorpe, Adjutant of the 1st Yorkshire Regiment (Princess of Wales's Own). The letter is dated Komati Poort, 7th August :—
...."The commanding officer desires me to give you the particulars concerning the death of your gallant son, the late Sergeant Atkinson of my regiment, during the battle of Paardeberg, in which the battalion took a most prominent part, being the first to advance to the attack, remaining in the firing line from early dawn till dark at very close range from the enemy's trenches.
...."During the morning, when his company was near the Modder River, the late Sergeant A. Atkinson carried Lieutenant Hammick, of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry, who was wounded, under a heavy fire to a place of safety, and bound up his wounds. Subsequently he heroically went down to the river seven times under a heavy fire to fetch water for the wounded. At the seventh time he fell mortally wounded through the head. The water's edge being within 50 yards of the enemy with no cover, made the fetching of water certain death, four or five men of the battalion having previously been killed in attempting to get water from the same place. The heat was very great, and water was urgently required for the wounded.
...."Lieutenant Hammick himself reported the bravery of your son to the adjutant, and asked that he should be recommended for the V.C., as he said he was the bravest man he had ever seen, and that he, Lieutenant Hammick. undoubtedly owed his life to his gallant conduct. Officers, non-commissioned officers, and men alike deplore the loss of a gallant and favourite comrade, and the regiment has lost in him one of its best and most reliable sergeants. I have known him well for some years, and cannot speak too highly of him, poor fellow."
...."The Military Secretary's reply to his recommendation was as follows :—'I am to acquaint you that the Commander-in-Chief highly appreciates the gallant conduct of this non-commissioned officer by which he lost his own life, but he regrets to be unable to depart from the invariable rule that the V.C. cannot be awarded in the case of a soldier who has not been recommended for the decoration while living.'
...." I feel deeply for you in the sad loss you have sustained, but it is a consolation to know that no man could have died a more glorious death."
Yorkshire Evening Post, Tuesday 10th September 1901
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