Private Albert Adwick
by Jason Toon.
Army Number: 306100 (formerly 3514)
Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born at Shireoaks, Nottinghamshire. Son of William and Charlotte Adwick, of 4 Glaenthorn, Shireoaks. He was a colliery pony driver at Shireoaks Colliery prior to enlisting at Newark, Nottinghamshire, on 15th January 1915. He went to France on 28th June 1915 and was wounded in September 1916. He suffered gas poisoning on 12th May 1917 and was transported back to England. He returned to France and was then sent on to Italy with his battalion in December 1917. He was killed in action on 11th December 1917 whilst serving in the trenches near Ciano, Italy.
Buried Giavera British Cemetery, Arcade, Italy. Plot 1, Row C. Grave 11.
Private Adwick is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Luke the Evangelist Church War Memorial, Shireoaks, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary and St. Cuthbert Priory Church War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Worksop War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.