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2nd Lieutenant Gerald Wallace ADAM.
13th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, formerly Leicestershire Regiment. Son of
Mr. and Mrs. John Wallace Adam, of Heaton Moor, Stockport. Died on 10 August
1919. Aged 20.
Commemorated on the ARCHANGEL MEMORIAL.
(A biography of Lieutenant Adam can be read on
www.stockport1914-1918.co.uk/soldier.php?name_id=4.
Additonally, there is a great deal of biographical information, together with
photos of the Archangel Memorial on the Buxton
War Memorial website.)
We are very grateful to Avalon
Eastman of the Oundle School Roll of Honour website for permission to
use the photo of Lieutenant Adam. She also provides the following biographical
information;-
Gerald Wallace Adam was the only son of Mr and Mrs John W. Adam of Heaton
Moor, Stockpor, and then of Buxton. He was born at Stockport on the 15th May
1899 and entered Oundle School (Grafton House) in May 1914 leaving in December
1916. Adam joined the Manchester University OTC in January 1917 and was eventually
gazetted to the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment.
In June 1918 he was attached to the 13th Yorkshire Regiment and with them
went to Russia. In May 1919 he was appointed Intelligence and Code Officer
on Colonel Lavie’s Staff.
He died on active service in northern Russia on 10th August 1919 (of dysentery).
His name is on the Archangel Memorial in the Russian Federation.
Mike Berrell (<mike_berrell@ntlworld.com>) has commented that
Gerald W ADAM is commmeorated on the following memorials;-
Reform Club, King Street, Manchester
Heaton Moor URC, Stockport
Memorial Hall, Stockport
See: http://www.mlfhs.org.uk/data/war_memorials_search.php
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