Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 25/08/1914
- Date of Discharge
- 25/08/1919
- Place of Enlistment
- Sydney NSW
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Place of Birth
- Easton, Hampshire, England
- Address (at enlistment)
- Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
- Occupation
- Soldier
- Next of Kin
- Robert, Alfred and Thirga Adams (siblings), England
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 68
- Final Rank
- Squadron Sergeant Major
- Final Unit
- 1 Signal Troop AIF
Notes
Adams was an Englishman who began working as a groom at the Royal Military College, Duntroon in June 1913. He had spent 18 years in the British Army with the 5th Dragoon Guards and served in the Boer War. He enlisted shortly after the outbreak of war in August 1914 and served on Gallipoli from May 1915 until the evacuation in December 1915. Adams served in the Sinai and Palestine campaigns with the 1st Signal Troop as Squadron Sergeant Major. He returned to Duntroon after his discharge in August 1919.
Description - height 5 feet 10 inches, weight 178 pounds, chest 35-38 inches, medium complexion, brown eyes, brown hair, Wesleyan.
Sources
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000
Queanbeyan Age - 27 July 1920