Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Son of Francis and Elizabeth ADAMS

Late Dr. Adams
There is no one in the west who does not deeply regret the untimely death of Dr. F. C. S. Adams, which took place at Orange on Tuesday morning. There was no man better known in the west. To know him was to admire him for he was a man of rare and excellent qualities. He was an ornament to his profession which is poorer by his decease. Had he not answered the call of humanity and  patriotism when the war broke out, he would be alive today and enjoying life as he did even while he lived in the shadow of approaching death. A better sport never lived in the west.

He was patron for more club than any man of his time, or before his time. The humblest association of young men when they formed a club of any kind always had Dr. Adams first in their minds when it came to the election of officers, and it is not recorded — for it could not— that he ever failed to send along at least a guinea when he notified that he would accept t he office.

When he returned from active service it was hard to realise that he was the same man as went away, leaving one of the best practices in the State to do what his sense of duty imposed on him. True there was little difference in his manner. He was cheerful, as had been his wont, and he appeared to be taking the same interest in life, but his hitherto graceful physical lineaments were strikingly altered. It was easily seen that the insidious disease which he had developed from a cold and over work at the front, was wasting away his tissue, and the novice could mark him out for a very short life to live. Still he was always cheerful, and his boon companions sought him out and spent many pleasant hours with him as of yore. During the last six months, however, his friends knew very well that the beginning of the end had set in, and he himself must have known it too, for he resigned all the offices he had held and went away to Orange, when he would not see as many dear friends as he would meet every hour of the day in Dubbo, where his good works will always be  remembered and his name honored.

Dr. Adams' death leaves a void in the life of Dubbo that can never be adequately filled. It is said that no man is indispensable, but here are hundreds in the west who received gratuitous services at the hands of this excellent doctor, who will continue to believe that men of his goodness of heart have ceased to exist. Dubbo mourns his loss, and Dubbo will ever think most kindly of him.