Name
Alfred Thomas Adams
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/04/1917
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
28680
Essex Regiment
“Y” Company, 1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 7
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial, St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware
Pre War
Born in 1884 in The Bourne, Ware, son of George and Maria (Ellis) Adams later of 3 Collett Road, Ware, Herts. He became a postman in Ware in Sep 1900. He married Edith Clara Amies in 1914 in Erpingham, Norfolk and they lived at 87 Mill Road, Cromer and had two children.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Great Yarmouth and was killed in action in France.
Additional Information
Brother of Private Charles Edward Adams who was killed in action on 16 Sep 1916 and of Private Ernest William Adams who died of wounds on 23 Sep 1917 and who are also commemorated on these memorials.
The three brothers who died are also commemorated on their parents’ grave in Ware New Cemetery. Their inscription reads:
AND OF
ALFRED THOMAS,
CHARLES EDWARD,
ERNEST WILLIAM.
SONS OF THE ABOVE [Charles & Marie Adams)
KILLED IN THE GREAT WAR.
1914 - 1918
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
