Name
Charles Edward Adams
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/09/1916
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
26989
Somerset Light Infantry
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2 A.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial, St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1886 in the Bourne, Ware son of Charles and Maria (Ellis) Adams and was living in 3 Collett Road, Ware in 1911 and working as a maltster.
He married Annie Lake in 1912 in Ware and lived at 23 The Bourne.
Wartime Service
Formerly 2454 in the Hertfordshire Regiment
Additional Information
Brother of Private Alfred Thomas Adams who was killed in action on 14 Apr 1917 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, Jonty Wild
