Private Walter Russell Adcock

Army Number: 22916

Battalion: 9th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He was born and lived at Beeston, Nottinghamshire, Son of Walter and Jane Adcock, of 41, Stoney Street, Beeston, husband of Annie Nellie Adcock, of 29, Nelson Street, Tantany Estate, West Bromwich. He was an Iron Foundry Labourer prior to enlisting at Nottingham and went to Gallipoli on 6th September 1915. Was later killed in action by German shellfire, on 7th September 1916, whilst serving in the trenches south of Thiepval, France during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried Ovillers Military Cemetery, France. Plot 1, Row E, Grave 32.

Ovillers Military Cemetery, France.
Private Walter Russell grave

Private Walter Russell Adcock is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. John the Baptist Church War Memorial, Beeston, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Frederick Adcock, 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry was killed in action 21st March 1918 and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France. Bay 8.