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ADAMS, Albert Vernon
| Service Number: | 2326 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 June 1915, Enlisted at Adelaide |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 27th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Romfod, England, 1887 |
| Home Town: | Maylands (SA), Norwood Payneham St Peters, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Draper |
| Died: | Kensington Park, South Australia, 25 October 1970, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 23 Jun 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, 2326, 27th Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Adelaide | |
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| 13 Oct 1915: | Involvement 2326, 27th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Themistocles embarkation_ship_number: A32 public_note: '' | |
| 13 Oct 1915: | Embarked 2326, 27th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Themistocles, Adelaide | |
| 12 Jan 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 27th Infantry Battalion | |
| 11 Oct 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2326, 27th Infantry Battalion, Gunshot wound to the wrist | |
| 28 Feb 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2326, 27th Infantry Battalion, Gunshot wound to the shoulder | |
| 26 Nov 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2326, 27th Infantry Battalion, Discharged at 4th Military district as medically unfit (senility) | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 2326, 27th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Carol Foster
Son of Arthur Walter Adams; husband of Martha Dunlop (nee Brown) Adams known as Mattie
Albert and Martha were married at the residence of W. Brown of Maylands on 6 September 1915. Parents of Peggy Lorraine Adams and Shirley Verna Adams
27 August 1917 - commenced return to Australia on board HT Beltana disembarking on 20 October 1917
Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Also served in England with the Royal Fusiliers
Biography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School
Albert Vernon Adams was born to Arthur and Annie Adams in November 1886 in Romford, England. He later settled permanently to Maylands, Adelaide. He made a living as a draper, likely selling cloth and fabric. He began his career in the AIF when he enlisted at the age of 28 in the summer of 1915. He enlisted as a private, and his service number was 2326. Before leaving Adelaide, he wed Martha "Mattie" Dunlop Brown on September 6th.
Later in September 1915, Adams was placed in the South Australian 27th Battalion as part of the 5th Reinforcements. He left Australia on the HMAT A32 Themistocles ship on October 13th, arriving at Port Suez in November. He was promoted to Lance Corporal the following January. After completing further overseas training in Egypt, he proceeded to fight in the Battle of Pozieres in the Somme Valley in France.
Unfortunately, on the 11th of October, 1916, a gunshot wound to his right wrist fractured his scaphoid, leading to months of treatment in numerous hospitals. He received immediate attention from a hospital in Boulogne but was transferred to England a month later aboard the HMHS Dieppe. There, Adams was treated at the Norfolk War Hospital in London. Several days later, he was admitted to the ‘No.1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital’ in Harefield, only to again transfer to a hospital in Weymouth. He was now additionally unwell with age-related debility but managed to recover by January of 1917. He promptly began travelling back to his placement in France and rejoined his unit on February 19th 1917.
Only days after re-entering the battlefield, on the 28th of February 1917, Adams suffered a tolling gunshot wound on his right shoulder. He was immediately admitted to a hospital before returning to England for medical treatment at the ‘Cambridge Military Hospital’. He was then transferred across the country to the ‘No.3 Australian Auxiliary Hospital’ in June, after months of medical care at Cambridge. Adams's physical and mental health was in poor condition at this point; He was recovering from two serious wounds, age-related debility, and 'senility'- a common term for dementia at the time. And yet, he was discharged from the hospital a month later and put on furlough, leaving for Australia on the 27th of August.
However, he was never able to rejoin his unit as November of 1917 marked his discharge from the AIF on the grounds of being medically unfit. Following his honorable discharge, details of Adams's life are unknown.
He returned to his life in Adelaide, having two daughters- Peggy and Shirley Adams. Albert Vernon Adams passed away at the age of 83 on October 25th, 1970, in South Australia.