later to be trained in the Armstrong Ordnance Works. His apprenticeship served, he returned to Shanghai to join the China Merchants Ca. and later the Oriental and Old Docks he was also connected for some years. with Messrs. Atkinson Dallas. During the Great War Mr. Atkinson worked at Woolwich.
Mr. Atkinson was an early member of the S.V.C., first joining the Artillery in 1882 and later becoming member of "A" Ca, and then the Engineers, He was a keen rifle shot, footballer and yachtsman, and probably one of the oldest members of the Shanghai Football Club, In his yachting days he sailed the "Sibyl," which had a successful career in the early years of the century,
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