Name
Keith White Adcock
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/10/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Engineers (TF)
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
Plot S. Row III. Grave A.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
After working for the Bradford and Leeds Corporations, he was appointed Assistant Engineer for Singapore. He was resident on Singapore Island for five years and was much involved in local government there. He was a volunteer in the Singapore garrison and assisted in putting down a mutiny by a native regiment in the course of which he was wounded. At the outbreak of the Great War he wanted to return to England but had to stay in Singapore due to the nature of his work.
Eventually he did return home and immediately joined the London Electrical Engineering Unit of the Royal Engineers. He was later attached to an Anti-Aircraft Company of the Royal Garrison Artillery stationed in the Defence Command. He died in Colchester Military Hospital from double pneumonia following on from influenza which was raging in epidemic proportions at the time.
Wartime Service
From the London Electrical Engineering Unit of the Royal Engineers.
He was later attached to an Anti-Aircraft Company of the Royal Garrison Artillery stationed in the Defence Command.
He died in Colchester Military Hospital from double pneumonia following on from influenza which was raging in epidemic proportions at the time.
Additional Information
Father was a George Adcock who was a Wesleyan Minister who lived at 23 Chiltern Road Hitchin. On Keith’s death he left his father a sum of £1042 4s 7d. He is also commemorated in Hitchin cemetery on the family headstone.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
