Robert Ringrose Gelston Atkins
Person details
| Forename(s) | Robert Ringrose Gelston |
|---|---|
| Surname | Atkins |
| Rank | Captain |
| Regiment | Royal Artillery |
| Age | 23 |
| Death | Killed on active service |
| Place of Death | North Africa > Tunisia |
| Date of Death | 25/01/1943 |
| Year of Entry | 1933 |
| House Letter | B |
| School Notes | |
| Comments | One of three close schoolfriends: Bob Atkins, Peter Glyn, Adrian Malcolm-King |
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission Link | https://www.cwgc.org/find-record... |
| Unit | 152nd Field Regiment |
| Prefect | School Prefect; Head of House |
| Military Decorations | MC |
| Album Number | 21 |
| Battle | |
| Previous Regiment | |
| Burial or Cemetery | Tunisia > Medjez-Bab |
| Citations | |
| Archives | Correspondence file in OR files in Radley Archives |
| Post School | Woolwich, 1937 |
| Prep School | Sidcup Place |
| Prisoner of War | |
| Radlein Obituary |
February 18 1943. In N. Africa, on active service in January 1943. Robert Ringrose Gelston Atkins, Captain, RA., aged 23. Bob Atkins came to Radley (Nugee's, B) in 1933. He had a very successful school career, and his many honours are too numerous to mention. But, among them. he was a School Prefect and Head of his House, and was in the Cricket and Hockey XIs, the XV.the Shooting VIII and the Fencing Team. He passed comfortably into Woolwich in December 1937, and did well there too. He won the Physical Efficiency Prize and was in the XV. He passed out into the R.A. in 1939. He went overseas in 1940, was slightly wounded in Syria and again in Libya, and had been in action almost everywhere from Syria to Benghazi before going sick with diphtheria. This brought him home and we saw him at Radley in August but he went overseas again at the end of last year. He was a delightful boy with simple, outdoor, unsophisticated tastes. He used to do the maddest things from time to time, as one might expect from an Irishman, and he would issue astonishing orders to his House, but all that came from a personality overflowing with life and energy. He was the type that the Army, the country and we, his friends, can ill afford to lose. |
| Service Number | 94732 |
| Place of Birth |
