Atkins Gallery

The Earl & Countess of Shrewsbury & Talbot wedding, Yevonde

Marriage of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot to Miss Nadine Crofton-Atkins, younger daughter of Brigadier-General and Mrs C. R. Crofton-Atkins of Trobridge, Crediton, Devon. The pair were married at St. Margaret's, Westminster and the bride wore a medieval style dress with a square quilted collar. Date: 1936

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Patriotism at the Halls, WW1

Sketches by Tony Sarg showing performers at various London shows singing patriotic songs shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. There is Mr Jamison Doggs singing Soldiers of the King at the Coliseum (conducted by the composer Leslie Stuart), Mr C Hayden Coffin singing Tommy Atkins, Leslie Stiles singing Stick to your Guns at the Empire and Leo Stormont reciting patriotic poetry and prose at the Palladium. It is satisfactory that there is an absence of "Jingoism" in the patriotic songs, evoked by the war, which now find place on the programmes of the principal Halls, comments The Sketch. Date: 1914

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Brigadier-General A R Crofton Atkins by Percival Anderson

Brigadier-General Alban Randell Crofton Atkins (1870-1926), Director of Supplies and Transport in 1917. He received his first commission in 1889 and transferred from the Royal Marine Light Infantry to the Army Service Corps five years later. He saw considerable active service in West Africa in the Ashanti War and Adjutant of the Army Service Corps during the South African (Boer) War. He held several staff appointments at the Headquarters of the Army and was at one time Chief Instructor at the Army Service Corps Training Establishment. When war broke out in 1914, he went to France as Assistant Director of Transport and returned to the War Office early in 1915 as Deputy Director of Supplies and Transport being appointed director in March 1916. Date: 1917

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