ADAMSON, Randolph
| Service Number: | 359 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 January 1916, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Salisbury Plains, New South Wales, Australia, 18 August 1897 |
| Home Town: | Clarence Town, Dungog, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Hanging Rock and Bendemeer and Hamilton Public Schools, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Coachbuilder |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Messines, Belgium, 7 June 1917, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bendemeer & District Memorial Gates, Bendemeer Public School Great War Roll of Honour, Glen Oak Memorial Gates, Lambton Fallen Soldiers HR, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 359, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 359, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney |
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35 Battalion
Rank - Private
Son of George McD. and Anne Adamson, of Public School, Glenoak, Maitland, New South Wales.
Biography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
106 years ago today, on the 7th June 1917, Private Randolph McDowell Adamson, referred to as Dolph, Dolphie, Dolphy, 35th Battalion (Reg No-359), coachbuilder's apprentice (Brown & Scully, Hamilton, N.S.W.), was Killed in Action by a piece of light shell to the head during the Battle of Messines, age 19 years 10 months.
Born at Uralla, New South Wales on the 18th August 1897 to George McDowell (public school head master, died 7.10.1936, age 75) and Anne Adamson nee Hopton (died 26.7.1948, age 85) of Glen Oak Public School, New South Wales and Pearce Street, Boolaroo, N.S.W. and 29 Frith Street, Boolaroo, N.S.W., Dolphy enlisted on the 16th January 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 1st May 1916.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article134860485 - the 321st & 322nd Australian Casualty list, N.S.W., KIA, R. Adamson (Glen Oak).
Randolph’s name has been inscribed on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), Belgium.
Place of Association – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Mr. Adamson’s name has also been inscribed on the Glen Oak School of Arts Memorial Gates, Hamilton Superior Public School Roll of Honor, Lambton Post Office Roll of Honor, Lambton and New Lambton Roll of Honor, Bendemeer War Memorial and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at the Adamson memorialised gravesite in remembrance of Dolph’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. METHODIST 3 (UNITING) C. 41.
Batman to Captain Frank Harold Jarrett (born at Lambton, New South Wales on the 9.6.1890, shop assistant from St James Road, New Lambton, New South Wales, enlisted 1.2.1916, 35th Battalion, wounded in action - 8.6.1917 (GSW right knee), 5.7.1917 (SW head and chest), DOW 5.7.1917, Messines, father of two (Daphna Grace, Grace Elis), husband of Grace Elizabeth Jarrett nee McVity (married 1914, Lambton, N.S.W., died 1988, aged 95, 71 years a widow) of Addison Road, New Lambton, New South Wales, awaiting memorialisation at widow's gravesite at Sandgate Cemetery - ANGLICAN 2-131. 33.
Older brother Thomas (Tom, born 13.5.1894, Uralla, New South Wales, fireman from Glen Oak Public School, N.S.W., enlisted 21.6.1916, 35th Battalion, Reg No-2517, wounded in action - 7.6.1917, gassed, Battle of Messines, 12.10.1917, sprained back, slight, 1st Battle of Passchendaele, invalided to England 19.12.1917, 2.6.1918 (shell shock, severe), invalided to England 4.7.1918, RTA 9.10.1918, died 10.8.1962, Boolaroo, N.S.W., age 68
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
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Lest We Forget.
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