Edwin Henry de Vere Atkinson

Lieutenant-general Sir Edwin Henry de Vere Atkinson (19 February 1867 – 1 April 1947) was a senior British Army officer who became Master-General of the Ordnance in India.

Military career Educated at Charterhouse School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Atkinson was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 16 September 1885.

He was appointed principal of the Thomason Engineering College at Roorkee, India in 1901. He saw service in the First World War, becoming Commander Royal Engineers, 38th (Welsh) Infantry Division in September 1915, Chief Engineer, I Corps in summer 1916 and Chief Engineer, First Army in November 1917.

After the war, he became General Officer Commanding Poona District in July 1920, Engineer-in-Chief, India in 1921

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George on 1 January 1917, a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 1 January 1918 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire on 7 February 1921.

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