Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Harry and Anna Adcock. In 1901 the family home was in board and lodgings at Seagrave Road, Sileby, Leicestershire, present were his father Henry, a widower and a Shoe Rivetter, born 1866 in Oakham, Rutland. Richard was born in 1891 in Leicester, also in the lodgings was a brother John, born 1893 in Leicester. In 1911 Richard was residing in Talavera Barracks, Wellington Lines, Aldershot, Hampshire, and serving as a Private with the 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment. Prior to enlistment he was in the shoe trade. He embarked for India in March 1911, and was sent to France at the outbreak of war, where he took part in the Retreat from Mons. He died from gun shot wounds at No.13 General Hospital, Boulogne. His brother Alfred also fell.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Richard ADCOCK
Private, 2nd Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment. Army no. 8737
He died of his wounds on 15 January 1915. He was 23.
He was the adopted son of Andrew J and Sarah A Browett of Deans Street, Oakham
He is buried in grave III C 41 Boulogne Eastern Cemetery
Additional information
He lived in Oakham and was born in Leicester
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M Allbrook 2013