Private Horace Reginald Adams

Army Number: 260043 (formerly 2180 Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars and 267410 Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry)

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

Born at Dartford, Kent. Son of Arthur Bradley and Edith Ellen Adams, of 7, Waldemar Road, Wimbledon Park, London. He lived at, 6 Percival Parade, Cheamside, Worcester Park, Surrey and worked as a business assistant. He enlisted in the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars in 1915 in London, transferred to the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and then to the 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. Wounded April 1917. Killed in action during the German attack near Kemmel, Belgium, 15th April 1918.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

Private Horace Reginald Adams is also commemorated in the following local memorials:-
Worcester Park (St. Philip’s Churchyard) War Memorial, Surrey.