Name
Frank Dalziel Adam
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/07/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BULLY-GRENAY COMMUNAL CEMETERY, BRITISH EXTENSION
V. F. 14.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on Caldicott School Memorial, Hitchin*1
Pre War
Son of William Adam (JP) and Martha Adam, of Lyndholme, Kidderminster. He was born in November 1896
He attended Caldicott School in Hitchin, leaving in 1910: Frank left the School in July 1910 end went to the Leys School at Cambridge.
Wartime Service
Frank was Gazetted as Second Lieutenant The Rifle Brigade on the 3rd June 1915. Official records state that he was in the 6th Battalion of the Brigade but the 3rd Battalion is more likely.
He served in France and Belgium from Christmas 1916 and was promoted to full Lieutenant in 1917.
He died of wounds at a first aid post near Bethune on the 16th July 1918 on the same day that he was wounded, aged 21 years.
His death was at the end of the great German offensive which had started in March 1918 and was just days before the British counter-offensive commenced.
He is buried at Bully-Graney Communal Cemetery British Extension east of Loos in France.
A brother officer wrote "He was one of the most popular officers in the battalion, and may I say I never came across an officer who took more trouble with his men. He was one of the most fearless . . . . We all feel his loss both as a friend and an officer, very much."
Additional Information
Frank was not recorded on the memorial, but is an ‘old boy’ of the school, so that is his connection to Hitchin. *1 This memorial (names only) was removed to Caldicott School, Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, when the school moved to that site.
Acknowledgments
Terry Ransome, www.caldicott.com/HistoryWW2.aspx, Jonty Wild
