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|name= Sir Edwin Henry de Vere Atkinson<br />
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|battles=[[World War I]]<br />
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|birth_date=19 February 1867<br />
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|birth_place=[[Allahabad]], [[Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
|death_place= [[Kensington]], [[London]]<br />
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[[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-general]] '''Sir Edwin Henry de Vere Atkinson''' (19 February 1867 – 1 April 1947) {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KBE|CB|CMG|CIE}} was a senior British Army officer who became [[Master-General of the Ordnance (India)|Master-General of the Ordnance]] in India.<br />
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==Military career==<br />
Educated at [[Charterhouse School]] and the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]], Atkinson was commissioned into the [[Royal Engineers]] on 16 September 1885.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=25515|page=4558|date=29 September 1885}}</ref> He was appointed Principal of the [[IIT Roorkee|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 (United Kingdom)|I Corps]] in summer 1916 and Chief Engineer, [[First Army (United Kingdom)|First Army]] in November 1917.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url= https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/war-studies/surnames-beginning-with-a|title=Edwin Henry de Vere Atkinson|publisher=University of Birmingham|access-date=8 November 2025}}</ref><br />
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After the war, he became General Officer Commanding Poona District in July 1920, Engineer-in-Chief, India in 1921<ref name=bio/> and [[Master-General of the Ordnance (India)|Master-General of the Ordnance]] in India in April 1924 before retiring in April 1930.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |title=Army Commands |accessdate=27 June 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705211343/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |archivedate=5 July 2015 }}</ref><br />
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He was appointed a [[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George]] on 1 January 1917,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=29886|page=4|date=29 December 1916|supp=y}}</ref> a [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]] on 1 January 1918<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30450|page=2|date=28 December 1917|supp=y}}</ref> and a [[Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] on 7 February 1921.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=13742|page=1526|date=13 September 1921|city=e}}</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
*{{cite book|title=Text-book of practical solid geometry, etc., for the use of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich|publisher=E. & F. N. Spon|year=1899}}<br />
*{{cite book|title=Report on the enquiry to bring technical institutions into closer touch and more practical relations with the employers of labour in India|publisher=Superintendent Government Printers|year=1912}}<br />
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