Private John Alfred George Adams, 66112
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- Unit - King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
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- Date of Birth - 1896
- Died - 14/11/1918
- Age - 23
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ContributeSource: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. He was the eldest son of George Henry and Kate ELizabeth Adams. In 1911 the family home was in North Luffenham, Rutland, present were his father George Henry a Timber Yard Sawyer, born 1872 in Silverstone, Northamptonshire and his mother Kate Elizabeth, born 1873 in Charwelton, Northamptonshire. John Alfred George was a Farm Under Waggoner, born in 1896 in Silverstone, Northamptonshire, he had two brothers and a sister, Andrew Arthur a Domestic House Boy, born 1897 in Dunchurch, Warwickshire, William a Schoolboy, born 1899 in Dunchurch, Warwickshire and Hildred Amelia, born 1909 in Harborough Magna, Warwickshire. He was trained as a Lewis gunner, embarking for France on the 15th October 1918, and was wounded in action by a bullet on 4th November, he subsequently died at an hospital in Liverpool.
- Conflict - World War I
- Cause of death - DIED OF WOUNDS
- Burial Place - W End, North Luffenham (st. John The Baptist) Churchyard
- Unit - King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
- Cause of death - DIED OF WOUNDS
- Burial Commemoration - St. John The Baptist Chyrd., North Luffenham, Rutland, England
- Born - Silverstone, Northants
- Enlisted - 24/6/1918
- Place of Residence - North Luffenham, Rutland, England
- Memorial - ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, NORTH LUFFENHAM, RUTLAND
