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1st / 7th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders (British Army) |
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05/06/1875
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| Died: |
28/04/1917 (Died of Wounds) |
| Age: |
41 |
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Thomas Adams was the son of John and Mary Adams. He was born on 5th June 1875 in Kilrea His mother died when he was a year old. His father remarried and had a further eight children. They were a farming family that lived at Claragh House, north of Kilrea. Thomas set up in business in Glasgow a few years previous to the war. Thomas Adams enlisted and joined the Gordon Highlanders and served with them throughout his time in the army. In April he was seriously wounded. He was removed to a casualty clearing station and then to a hospital in Etaples. Lance Corporal Thomas Adams died of his wounds a few days later on Saturday 28th April 1917
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Étaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. The Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne. During the First World War, the area around Étaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern or the southern battlefields. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand dunes and the hospitals, which included eleven general, one stationary, four Red Cross hospitals and a convalescent depot, could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. convalescent depot remained.
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