Private Samuel Reuben Adams

Army Number: 9400

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Old Basford Nottinghamshire. Son of Francis Palethorpe Adams and Rose Adams, of 7, Henser Grove, Hyson Green, Nottingham. Husband of Ellen Adams, of 35, Rempstone Drive, Highbury Estate, Bulwell, Nottingham. He was hosiery dyers boiler stoker prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th October 1914, aged 28, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7

Private Samuel Reuben Adams is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Leodegarius Church Roll of Honour, Basford, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Lance Corporal Frank Osbund Adams, 1/7th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.