A ‘North Wilts Herald’ reporter has had the opportunity of inquiring into and verifying a veritable escape from the jaws of death. Miss M. A. Atcherley [], who resides with her mother at 43, Albion-street, New Swindon, gave a full description of her escape. … Born in Swindon in 1877 to Edward Richard Atcherley and his wife Elizabeth (Weeks), Martha Ann… Read more »
In July 1939 Squadron Leader David Francis William Atcherley [] found himself in Belgium, in charge of some of the best of Britain’s military aircraft: a Vickers Wellington, a Hawker Hurricane, and a Supermarine Spitfire. Men and machines from seven other European countries including Germany were there too. They had not gathered to fight however. Instead, practically on the eve of… Read more »
Updated for International Women’s day on 8 March 2015. Further update with photo of ‘Warkworth Castle’ added 5 June 2015. Miss Ethel Atcherley was one of the most gifted of the brilliant circle of Manchester artists. She studied painting and modelling at the School of Art, in London and in Paris. She was a frequent exhibitor at the Paris Salon, at… Read more »
The Russians advanced in three columns of 1500 men each … but our pickets behaved admirably … firing through the intervals with such regularity and precision that the Russians were loth to advance any but skirmishers; and two hours were spent before the grand attack came on. There is no record, I believe, of pickets, amounting in all to five… Read more »
The jury retired, and soon after ten o’clock came into Court and pronounced a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Sergeant Atcherley then passed sentence of death on the prisoner, who heard it with perfect calmness, and merely said, ‘My Lord, I am as innocent of the crime as you are.’ – Cork Examiner, 9 Aug 1844. [1] David Francis Atcherley [], Sergeant at… Read more »
< Back to Major Llewellyn Atcherley and the elusive suffragette – Part 2 < More Atcherley stories from World War 1 Updated 20 Sep 2014. Llewellyn William Atcherley [] was the highest-ranking member of the family to serve in the Great War. A former officer with the Army Service Corps, he returned to the Army on 5 August 1914 from the Reserve,… Read more »