ADAMS, Robert John
| Service Number: | 198 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen |
| Born: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 12 June 1878 |
| Home Town: | Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Teamster |
| Died: | Pneumonia, Quarantine Station, Woodman's Point, Western Australia, Australia, 24 April 1919, aged 40 years |
| Cemetery: |
Perth War Cemetery and Annex, Western Australia Plot: NC1. 11. |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 198 | |
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| 4 Apr 1901: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 198, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 506 notes 6th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 4 Apr 1901 aboard Victoria arriving Cape Town 2 May 1901. | |
| 23 Jun 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 198, 6th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 508 notes 6th QIB embarked at Durban 17 May 1902 aboard Devon returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 17 Jun 1902, disbanded 23 Jun 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Robert John Adams also served in WW1, Trooper S.N. 3410, 10th Light Horse Regiment AIF. It appears he returned from WW1 and was quarantined at the Quarantine Station, Woodman's Point, W.A. where he died of Pneumonia on 24 Apr 1919 before being discharged. When he enlisted for WW1 in 1917 in W.A. he noted on his Attestation Form he was; born in Toowoomba; 38 years old; and had previously served in the South African (Boer) War in the 6th Qld Imperial Bushmen.
When he enlisted in 1901 in the 6th QIB and his details were published with the rank and file in The Queenslander, 13 Apr 1901, he noted his N.O.K. as James Adams, Cabarlah (via Toowoomba). He was born on 12 Jun 1878 at Toowoomba, a son (and one of fourteen children) to James Adams and Letitia Adams (nee Green). He married Margarite Parsons on 13 Aug 1903 in Queensland and had 1 child in 1903 in Queensland.
By 1906 they were in Western Australia where a further 3 children were born between 1906 and 1912. On his WW1 Attestation Paper in 1917 he noted he was working as a Teamster and living at Ellis Creek, Barrabup, W.A. He also noted he was a widower and his N.O.K. was his son Robert James Adams (b. 1906) who was in the Swan Orphanage, Midland Junction, W.A. The fate of his wife and other children is not mentioned.
(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 513; National Archives Australia- WW1 service record;
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