Private Leonard Adams

Army Number: 73181 (formerly 21492 Lincolnshire Regiment)

Battalion: 11th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Over, Cambridgeshire. Lived at Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire. Son of Dennis and Charlotte Adams, of Silver Street. Willingham, Cambridgeshire. Brother of Elsie Lingo, Berrycroft, Willingham. He was a bricklayer’s labourer. Enlisted at Long Sutton, Lincolnshire 11th December 1915 into the Lincolnshire Regiment. He was transferred to the 11th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. Killed in action in the attack near Hill 60, Belgium, 7th June 1917.

Commemorated Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41

Private Leonard Adams is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Mathrew’s Church War Memorial, Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire.