ADAM, David Ford
| Service Number: | 5536 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 17th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Granville, New South Wales, Australia, 1887 |
| Home Town: | Granville, Parramatta, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Superior Public School Granville, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Engine Driver |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 9 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Granville War Memorial, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Sep 1916: | Involvement Private, 5536, 17th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
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| 9 Sep 1916: | Embarked Private, 5536, 17th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney |
Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board
David Ford ADAM, (Service Number 5536) known as ‘Snowy’, was born in Granville in 1887. Joining the NSWGR as a shop boy at Eveleigh in 1904, he progressed to cleaner in 1908 and fireman in 1910 and had been an acting engine driver when in March 1916 he enlisted in the AIF, aged 28.
Embarked from Sydney in September 1916, he joined his unit on the Western front in January 1917. He was reported wounded in action on 9 October and subsequently as killed in action on that day, during the Third Battle of Ypres. He was buried ‘in the vicinity of Broodseinde, Passchendaele’, but after the war his grave could not be located, and he is remembered with honour on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
(NAA B2455-3019541)
Submitted 9 May 2023 by John Oakes
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