Private James Adams

Army Number: 201608

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Charles and Mary Ann Adams, of 33 Lower Midway, Derbyshire. He was a brickyard labourer prior to enlisting at Derby, on 15th June 1915 and went to France on 3rd March 1916. He was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A

Thiepval Memorial, France.