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RAMC profile of:
Keyser ATKIN M.R.C.S.
 
 


Place or Date
of Birth:
Birkenhead in 1892

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TF Number:

Rank: Capt (a.Maj)

Unit:

Attached To: South Staffordshire Regiment

Enlistment Location:

Also Served: See below

Outcome: Died of wounds

Date Died: 06/06/1918
Age Died: 25

Where Buried and/or Commemorated: France - Marfaux British Cemetery, Marne

Awards:

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Other Information:

Keyser was educated at Mostyn House Preparatory School (where he was head if the school and chief if the cadet corps); at Mill Hill School; at Jesus College, Cambridge, and Manchester University. - qualifying in 1916. On the outbreak of war, Keyser applied for a commission in the R.A.M.C. (T.F.) but was told to continue his medical studies and become qualified, which he did. Between February and August 1916, he was a Resident Student at the Officer Training Centre. He held the appointments of house physician at St Mary’s Hospital, and house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester. When he obtained his commission he became attached as medical officer to a battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment. In September 1917, when hurrying to the relief of men buried by a shell, he was taken prisoner of war, held at Holzminden and Freiburg. He was repatriated in February 1918. During his short stay at home he took a special course in dentistry in order to be of greater service to the men on his return to France. When he returned he became the medical officer to one of the battalions of the London Regiment. Whilst at his dressing stations at Nanteuil-La-Fosse; Montagne de Reims he received wounds from which he died the same day. Keyser’s headmaster wrote of him that he was utterly straight and conscientious, and this reputation remained with him throughout his life. Keyser won distinction as an athlete, rowing in his college boat three times at Henley. He was also one of the best shots in England, winning the Lord Roberts gold medal; and was second in the Public Schools’ boxing competition at Aldershot. At college he was the first man who ever passed the Second M.B. before taking his B.A. degree, and his teachers predicted for him a splendid future. Keyser was the only son of Peter Wilson (stipendiary magistrate at Salford) and Nelley Keyser Atkin of 6 Park Lane, Kersal, Manchester.


 
Additional Information: Date Added: Thursday 23 August, 2018
 
Keyser's final resting place. [Photograph courtesy of Chris Ludlam]


  
 
 
Additional Information: Date Added: Tuesday 03 February, 2015
 
Keyser Atkin has a 'lifestory' on the Imperial War Museum's Lives of the First World War website, I ...
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