ADAMS E. L.
Ernest Leonard Adams
Private 24507
"D" Coy., 1st Bn., King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Ernest Leonard Adams (known as Leonard) died on Thursday, 3rd October 1918, aged 26 years, and was buried in the GUIZANCOURT FARM CEMETERY, GOUY, Aisne, France.
He was born in 1892 at Kirkby-in-Ashfield, to parents Andrew Thomas and Emily Adams. Andrew Adams was a Coal Miner, and both he and his wife were originally born in Greens Norton, Northamptonshire. The family were living in Kirkby on the 1901 census, but by the time of Leonard's death they resided at 3 Lord Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
Notts Free Press, (exact date unknown)
Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 8th November 1918
Adams - In loving memory of Private Leonard Adams, who was killed in Action, in France, on October 3rd 1918, aged 25 years. A light is from our household gone, A voice we loved is stilled, A place is vacant at our hearth, which never can be filled. May angels bless you and guard your grave, We loved you well but could not save; "God's will be done", it's hard to say, when those we love are called away.
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry’
ADAMS
Leonard. Born Kirby, Notts, enlisted
Sutton-in-Ashfield. 1st Bn., King's Own
Yorkshire Light Infantry, Private
24507, Killed in Action, France & Flanders, 3rd October 1918.
Research by Heather Faulkes
