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Charles K Adams

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Charles K Adams Veteran

Birth
Moundsville, Marshall County, West Virginia, USA
Death
14 Jan 1944 (aged 26)
At Sea
Burial
Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England GPS-Latitude: 52.2179461, Longitude: 0.0538419
Plot
Plot G Row 1 Grave 161.
Memorial ID
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Charles Kendrick Adams Jr. was born in Moundsville on August 3, 1917, to Charles Kendrick and Eliza Jane Totten Adams. He attended Moundsville Central before the family moved to Huntington, where they were living in 1930.

After World War II broke out, Charles Adams volunteered for the American Field Service, and he served as an ambulance driver with CM 47, assigned to the Central Mediterranean area. Adams was taken ill and died aboard a hospital ship on January 14, 1944. He was buried at the Cambridge American Cemetery in Cambridge, England, in Plot G Row 1 Grave 161.



Thanks to Tammy for the biographical update!
Charles Kendrick Adams Jr. was born in Moundsville on August 3, 1917, to Charles Kendrick and Eliza Jane Totten Adams. He attended Moundsville Central before the family moved to Huntington, where they were living in 1930.

After World War II broke out, Charles Adams volunteered for the American Field Service, and he served as an ambulance driver with CM 47, assigned to the Central Mediterranean area. Adams was taken ill and died aboard a hospital ship on January 14, 1944. He was buried at the Cambridge American Cemetery in Cambridge, England, in Plot G Row 1 Grave 161.



Thanks to Tammy for the biographical update!

Gravesite Details

Civilian from West Virginia.


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  • Maintained by: Geoffrey Roecker
  • Originally Created by: War Graves
  • Added: Aug 6, 2010
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56287275/charles_k-adams: accessed ), memorial page for Charles K Adams (3 Aug 1917–14 Jan 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56287275, citing Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England; Maintained by Geoffrey Roecker (contributor 47006169).