Richard Winstanley ADAMS

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ADAMS, Richard Winstanley

Service Number:	2
Enlisted:	13 December 1915, Gunnedah, New South Wales
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	34th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia, 1893
Home Town:	Gunnedah, Gunnedah, New South Wales
Schooling:	Narrabri Public School, New South Wales
Occupation:	Farmer
Died:	Killed in Action, Messines, Belgium, 7 June 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gunnedah Cenotaph, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient)

World War 1 Service

13 Dec 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunnedah, New South Wales
2 May 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2, 34th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
2 May 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2, 34th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Hororata, Sydney

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Richard Winstanley ADAMS was born in Narrabri, NSW in 1893

His parents were Richard Winstanley ADAMS & Charlotte GLEESON who married in Narrabri in 1887

Biography

34 Battalion

Rank - Private

23 June 1916 Disembarked Plymouth, England

21 November 1916 Embarked Southampton to join the British Expeditionary Force

Son of Richard Winstanley and C. Adams of Gunnedah, New South Wales

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