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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 289

Six: Stoker 1st Class R. Atkinson, Royal Fleet Reserve, late Royal Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Royal Fleet Reserve L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (K. 65022 (Ch. B. 24141) R. Atkinson, Sto.1, R.F.R.), mounted as worn, good very fine (6)

Robert Atkinson was born at St. Pancras, London on 15 March 1905 and entered the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class in October 1924. Having then come ashore as a 'time expired' Stoker 1st Class in August 1936, he enrolled in the Royal Fleet Reserve.

Recalled in the summer of 1939, he was invalided from the R.N.H. Kingseat in Aberdeenshire in September 1940, suffering from Paranoid Schizophrenia. The composition of his mounted medal group suggests that he recovered and went on to witness active service.

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