Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the grand son of James Lloyd, a Coal Miner Banksman, born 1844 in Britwell, Oxfordshire, and his wife Johannah, born 1841 in Kerry, Barnard, Ireland. James Lloyd Adcock was a Coal Miner Banksman and was born in 1895 in Ulverscroft, Leicestershire. In 1911 the family home was at Stanton under Bardon, Leicestershire. The War Diary entry for the events of the 23rd to the 28th September 1916 records. TRENCHES. Everything very quiet except on the 26th when our support were shelled by about 10 105mm shells. 3 men were killed. The Battalion was relieved by the 6th LEICESTERSHIRE REGT. at 6.00pm. "B" and "D" Companies proceeded to ARRAS to billets. "C" Company to the CANDLE FACTORY and "A" Company to the REDOUBT LINE.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Coalville Times article - Friday September 29th, 1916

STANON-UNDER-BARDON SOLDIER’S DEATH

OFFICER’S TRIBUTE


Mrs Lloyd, of Stanton-under-Bardon, has received several letters concerning the death of her grandson, Private J. L. Adcock, of the Leicestershire Regiment, recently killed in action. Captain T. Cecil Howett, officer commanding the company, writes, “I regret to inform you of the death of your grandson, Private J. L. Adcock, who was killed in action on Sunday, August 27th. Private Adcock was always a very keen soldier, and I looked on him as one of my best and most reliable men. His loss is felt very much by his comrades, with whom he was always most popular. It may be some slight consolation for you to know that he did not suffer. He was killed instantly by a shell. Please accept my deepest sympathy for you in your great sorrow.”

Another letter is from Lieutenant and A.-Adjutant W. Morris, who writes, “I greatly regret to inform you that your grandson, Private J. L. Adcock, has been killed in action. I deeply sympathise with you in the loss you have sustained. Try to think of him with pride, not with too much sorrow, since he put his country and the safety of all its people before all else, and died in upholding the welfare and liberty of dear old England.”

The Rev. H. E. Sawbridge, (chaplain) writes, “You will already have heard of the very sad news that your grandson, Private J. L. Adcock, was killed in action on August 27th. I am writing to offer you my sincerest sympathy, and to tell you that he was buried in a British military cemetery at 7 pm, on August 28th, by the side of the graves of other brave men who have given their lives for their country. His battalion are setting a cross over his grave, bearing his name and battalion, and the date of his death. We out here all understand how great is the sacrifice that is being made at this time by the women of England – even greater, perhaps, than the sacrifice that is made by the men themselves, who have laid down their lives for their country, and for all they knew to be best. We believe that they are now at rest in a fuller, brighter, and happier existence. But those who mourn their loss are bearing the greatest sorrow we are given to bear in this world. May our Heavenly Father, who gave his only son to die that we might live for ever in His eternal home of rest and peace, bless and comfort you and give you strength to bear your great sorrow.”

Research undertaken and submitted by Andy Murby 15/10/2017