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Ancestry birth registration details 

Name Dudley Adams
Birth Date 1890
Birth Place New South Wales
Registration Year 1890
Registration Place Burwood, New South Wales, Australia
Father William J Adams
Mother Alice E Adams
Registration Number 9333

Son of W J ADAMS, Cooinoo, Turramurra, NSW

Captain

130 Yeavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

Commemorated Poziers Memorial Panel 10, France

Among the many brave men who fell while repelling the great German thurst on March 21 was Captain Dudley Adams, of the Royal Garrison Artillery.  The eldest son of Mr. W.J. Adams of "Holmwood" Darling Point Road. the late Captain Adams was born in Sydney in November 1890.  Educated first at the North Shore Grammar School, he later proceeded to England and became a pupil of Mr. Marsh, of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway.  He remained there for three years studying engeineering.  After that he entered the electrical engineering branch of Messrs. Vicars Ltd., at Sheffield.  He next studied electrical work and turbines at Messrs. C.A. Parsons Ltd.  Subsequently he gained further experience in his profession in America.  On his way back to Australia war broke out.

He was keenly anxious to get to the front.  In April 1915, he and his brother left for England, where he joined the Royal Artillery, going into training in Ireland.  He remained there until the end of the same year, when he obtained his commission, and went to Gallipoli with reinforcements for the 97th division.  After the evaucation he proceeded to Egypt and then to France, where he saw some two years' service up to the time of his death.  He gained his second star some six months ago, and on Jaunary 15 of this  year was gazetted captain, second in command of his battery.  In the same month he was transferred to near where he fell, east of Bapaume.