Private George Stanley Adams

Army Number: 97100

Battalion: 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Crook, County Durham, son of Annie Adams. He lived at 44, Gladstone Street, Crook and was a grocer’s manager. He enlisted at Crook on 9th December 1915 and joined the 80th Training Battalion. He was posted to the 3rd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and then to the 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and finally to the 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment on 17th November 1917. He went to France on 28th December 1917 and was killed in action, on 21st March 1918, whilst holding the line near Noreuil, France on the opening day of the German Spring Offensive or (Kaiserschlact)

Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.

Private George Stanley Adams is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Crook War Memorial, Crook, County Durham.