Lieutenant Percy Horace Adams

Army Number: formerly 762325 Private 28th Battalion London Regiment (Artists Rifles)

Battalion: 4th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Alfred Horace Comyn and Amelia Adams of “Woodleigh,” Cumnor Road, Sutton, Surrey. Lived at Sutton, Surrey. Enlisted in London in the 28th Battalion London Regiment (Artists Rifles) in September 1916. Drafted to 2nd Officers Cadet Battalion Queens College Cambridge 1916/17. Posted 2nd Lieutenant 4th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment 30th May 1917. Posted 2nd Lieutenant 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment 18th September 1917. Transferred to England suffering from gas poisoning and on recovery, joined the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment in the Oppy sector 2nd September 1918. Killed in action on 3rd October 1918, age 20 during a raid on the German trenches.

Buried Roclincourt Military Cemetery, France. Plot 6, Row E. Grave 12.

Lieutenant Percy Horace Adams is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Manor Park War Memorial, Sutton, Surrey.