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Major Robert Roy Adams Veteran

Birth
Forres, Moray, Scotland
Death
22 Jan 1865 (aged 42)
Peshawar, Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Burial
Peshawar, Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Add to Map
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One of six children of Dr. George and Jean U. (Roy) Adams. Married Frances Charlotte Caroline Bellew on December 7, 1852. They had five children one of whom was Major General Robert Bellew Adams, VC.

Major Adams was killed in the Northwest Territory of India, which is now part of Pakistan.
Contributor: LBeebe (47085083)
One of six children of Dr. George and Jean U. (Roy) Adams. Married Frances Charlotte Caroline Bellew on December 7, 1852. They had five children one of whom was Major General Robert Bellew Adams, VC.

Major Adams was killed in the Northwest Territory of India, which is now part of Pakistan.
Contributor: LBeebe (47085083)

Inscription

The grave of Robert Roy Adams Major in H. M. s Indian Staff Corps and Deputy Commissioner in the Punjab called to Peshawur, as an officer or rare capacity for, a frontier. Wise just and courageous in all things faithful he came only to die at his post. Struck down by the hand of an assassin on the 22nd Jan 1865 aged 43.
"Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord" Revs 14th 13 V
"If we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him." Thess IV. 14

Gravesite Details

Source: Peshawar cemetery record book, vol 1, p42



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