Name
Henry Gordon Adams
1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/10/1917
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Field Artillery
South Midland Bde.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CANADA FARM CEMETERY
III. D. 4.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
MAY LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE UPON HIM
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Letchworth memorials, Solicitors & Articled Clerks, Sheffield District, Sheffield, Solicitors & Articled Clerks, Law Society, London, WC2 1PL
Pre War
Henry Gordon, Arthur Wilfrid (born 1893) were living at 8, Edgecumbe Road, Bristol with one servant.
Henry Gordon studied Law at London University and qualified as a solicitor in 1910 while working for E J Taylor in Bristol.
On the 1911 Census Henry’s parents were living at the same address in Bristol with daughter Emily (a teacher) and Wilfrid (a medical student). Any record of Henry was not confirmed but may have been working as a solicitor to Town Clerk in Sheffield.
Henry Gordon married Doris Rose Norbury on 4 Sep 1913 in Bloomsbury, London. He gave his address as Sheffield, Yorkshire.
Town Clerk Sheffield. At sometime they lived at Devonshire House, Bath Road, Buxton.
Wartime Service
No Service Record was available for Henry. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery with South Midland Brigade, a Territorial Unit.
At sometime he transferred to 34 Brigade RFA in 2nd Division. On 25 Jan 1917 the Brigade left 2nd Division to become an Army Field Artillery Brigade and was at the Battles of Arras () and 3rd Ypres (Passchendaele) 61 Jul-1 Nov 1917.
Henry was killed in action on 5 Oct 1917 possibly a result of German Counter Battery fire.
Additional Information
No War Gratuity mentioned arrears of £66 11s 11d shared jointly by his widow Doris Rose and brother Arthur Wilfrid. Arthur Wilfrid Adams served in Royal Army Medical Corps as a Second Lieutnant, surviving the Great War and was awarded OBE in 1929.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
