Name
Henry Bardell Adamson
14/12/1881
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/10/1916
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
21st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY, ROUEN
Officers, B. 2. 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
SON OF THE REV. J.B. ADAMSON OF BURLEYDAM, CHESHIRE
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham, St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Aldenham, St John the Baptist Church Roll of Honour, Aldenham, Letchmore Heath Village Memorial, Marlborough Collage Memorial, Solihull Grammar School Memorial, Burleydam Village Memorial
Pre War
Henry Bardell Adamson was born on 14 December 1881, in Foleshill, Warwickshire, son of The Rev. James Bardell Adamson and Sarah Sibyl Adamson (nee Baker), the eldest of three children, Catherine (B 1883) and John (B 1888).
Henry was baptised on 25 January 1882, at St Paul’s Church, Foleshill, Warwickshire.
1891 Census records Henry aged 9 living with his parents and two siblings at, Burleydam Vicarage, Burleydam Road, Dodcott cum Wilkesley, Cheshire.
He attended Marlborough Collage from September 1894 to July 1901. He went from Marlborough Collage to Selwyn Collage, Cambridge, attaining his BA in 1904, and in 1908, he took his MA.
He was Assistant Master at Solihull Grammar School. Then in 1910, he moved to Aldenham School in Hertfordshire.
1911 Census records Henry aged 29, a School Master, and boarding with Arthur Grace (a Professional Cricketer) and his wife Emma Grace (a Head Teacher), in Letchmore Heath, Herts.
1915 Electoral roll has him living at Aldenham School.
Henry was the Commanding Officer of the Aldenham School OTC.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war he joined the 12 Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, and was later attached to the 21 Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment, with whom he went to France with, in June 1915.
Henry was wounded in the trenches on 22 October 1916, he died of his wounds on 30 October 1916, at No.2 British Red Cross Hospital, Rouen, France.
In addition to Herts. Memorials he appears on Selwyn College memorial, Cambridge and St Chads, Shrewsbury
Additional Information
His father, Rev. J. B. Adamson, $ Claremont Bldgs., Shrewsbury, ordered his headstone inscription: "SON OF THE REV. J.B. ADAMSON OF BURLEYDAM, CHESHIRE". The value of his effects were £127-6s-0d.. When probate was completed this had risen to £1198 10s 9d all monies went to his father.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper, Stuart Osborne, Taff Williams
Tony James
