Private Walter Sydney Adcock, 20989
- Batt - 12
- Unit - Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
- Section -
- Date of Birth - 1894
- Died - 23/10/1916
- Age - 19
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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 son of Thomas and Mary Adcock of Brick Hill Cottage, Fen Lane, Upton, Nuneaton, Warwks. In 1911 the family home was at Town Gardens, Stoke Golding, Leicestershire, present were his father Thomas who was a Farm Labourer and was born in in 1863 in Stoke Golding, Leicestershire and his wife Mary who was born in 1864 in Stoke Golding, Leicestershire. Walter S. was a Shoe Clicker and was born in 1894 in Stoke Golding, Leicestershire, at home there were four brothers and a sister, Samuel F. a Heel Tipper, born 1898, Harry a Schoolboy, born 1899, Charles W. a Schoolboy, born 1904, Arthur a Schoolboy, born 1907 and Florence A. a Hosiery Machinist, born 1896, all his siblings were born in Stoke Golding, Leicestershire. His brothers Harry and Percy also fell.
- Conflict - World War I
- Unit - Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
- Former Unit n.o - 24687
- Former Unit - Leicestershire Regiment
- Cause of death - DIED OF WOUNDS
- Burial Commemoration - Thiepval Mem., Somme, France
- Born - Stoke Golding, Leics
- Enlisted - Hinckley, Leics
- Place of Residence - Hinckley, Leicestershire, England
- Memorial - ST. MARGARET'S CHURCH, STOKE GOLDING, LEICS
