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Lt. Eric Atkinson
British Army King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Consett
Eric Atkinson was responsible for getting troops to the beach at Dunkirk. Captured, he spent war in many POW camps all over Germany and Poland. Also put from time to time in 'revenge camps' in chains and fed on bread and water. Compensation paid by post war Germany in the late 1960s I recall.
He was the father of the actor Rowan Atkinson and political economist and Ministerial adviser Rodney Atkinson.