ADAMS, Edgar Robert Colbeck
| Service Numbers: | 1127, 1108 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 September 1914, Mildura, Vic. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 8th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Mildura, Victoria, Australia, 1896 |
| Home Town: | Mildura, Mildura Shire, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Koorlong School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Suveyor and Engineer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 25 April 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey Panel 30 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial, Koorlong Mildura Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Mildura Cenotaph |
World War 1 Service
| 16 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1127, 8th Infantry Battalion, Mildura, Vic. | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 1108, 8th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 1108, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Melbourne | |
| 25 Apr 1915: | Imprisoned ANZAC / Gallipoli, Court of Enquiry 11 July 1918 found he was captured on or about this date and died in Turkish captivity. He was never officially acknowledged as a POW. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Robert Wight
Son of James Rawson & S E ADAMS
Of Koorlong, Mildura Vic.
1127 Private Edgar Robert Colbeck Adams, 8th Battalion, of Mildura, Vic. enlisted on 14 September 1914, aged 18, and took part in the landing on Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 when it appears he was taken Prisoner of War (POW).
He managed to send a message in a bottle which was picked up in Egypt on 1 November 1915. The message read "am prisoner about 2 miles from where we landed...".
However no official record of Pte Adams as a prisoner or any subsequent fate was ever received. An inquiry was held and the finding was that he died on or about 25 April 1915 in Turkish hands.
Source: AWM
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