Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

01/01/1918

Date of Discharge

03/07/1919

Place of Enlistment

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

05/01/1898

Place of Birth

New Norfolk, Tasmania

Address (at enlistment)

Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

School(s) Attended

Queen's College (Hobart)

Occupation

Soldier

Next of Kin

Charlotte Adams (mother), New Norfolk, Tasmania

Final Rank

Lieutenant

Final Unit

2 Siege Battery AIF

Adams entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon in February 1915 and graduated at the end of 1917 when he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in a Special Draft of RMC graduates which arrived in England in April 1918. He joined the 2nd Siege Battery two weeks before the end of the war. He served in World War 2 as a Lieutenant Colonel with the 2/9 Field Regiment. He died on 6 January 1990.

Description - height 5 feet 9 ¾ inches, weight 168 pounds, chest 40 inches, Church of England.

Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
The Duntroon Society, Obituary, Newsletter 2/1990 (p.5)
Launceston Examiner - 10 January 1913