Suggested edit: For Bio: Extract from: The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
ADLAM, ARTHUR WILLS, Private, No. 1269, 1/4th Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh Rifles) The Royal Scots (T.F.), youngest son of the late Richard Wills Adlam, Superintendent of Public Parks in Johannesburg (b. co. Wilts., England; d. 17 July, 1903), by his wife, Grace Campbell (49, West Savile Terrace, Edinburgh), daughter of Duncan McDiarmid; b. Johannesburg, 7 Jan. 1895; came home with his mother after his father's death; entered the service of the British Linen Co. Bank on leaving school in 1911; joined the Banker's Company of the Royal Scots in Feb. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; left Liverpool about the end of May, 1915, and landed at the Dardanelles, 14 June, and was killed in action there in the attack on Achi Baba, 28 June, 1915; unmarried. He was twice hit early in the charge, and was endeavouring to get back to the dressing station when he was again struck, this time fatally.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile
ADLAM, ARTHUR WILLS, Private, No. 1269, 1/4th Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh Rifles) The Royal Scots (T.F.), youngest son of the late Richard Wills Adlam, Superintendent of Public Parks in Johannesburg (b. co. Wilts., England; d. 17 July, 1903), by his wife, Grace Campbell (49, West Savile Terrace, Edinburgh), daughter of Duncan McDiarmid; b. Johannesburg, 7 Jan. 1895; came home with his mother after his father's death; entered the service of the British Linen Co. Bank on leaving school in 1911; joined the Banker's Company of the Royal Scots in Feb. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; left Liverpool about the end of May, 1915, and landed at the Dardanelles, 14 June, and was killed in action there in the attack on Achi Baba, 28 June, 1915; unmarried. He was twice hit early in the charge, and was endeavouring to get back to the dressing station when he was again struck, this time fatally.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile
Suggested edit: For Bio: Extract from: The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
ADLAM, ARTHUR WILLS, Private, No. 1269, 1/4th Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh Rifles) The Royal Scots (T.F.), youngest son of the late Richard Wills Adlam, Superintendent of Public Parks in Johannesburg (b. co. Wilts., England; d. 17 July, 1903), by his wife, Grace Campbell (49, West Savile Terrace, Edinburgh), daughter of Duncan McDiarmid; b. Johannesburg, 7 Jan. 1895; came home with his mother after his father's death; entered the service of the British Linen Co. Bank on leaving school in 1911; joined the Banker's Company of the Royal Scots in Feb. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; left Liverpool about the end of May, 1915, and landed at the Dardanelles, 14 June, and was killed in action there in the attack on Achi Baba, 28 June, 1915; unmarried. He was twice hit early in the charge, and was endeavouring to get back to the dressing station when he was again struck, this time fatally.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile
ADLAM, ARTHUR WILLS, Private, No. 1269, 1/4th Battalion (Queen's Edinburgh Rifles) The Royal Scots (T.F.), youngest son of the late Richard Wills Adlam, Superintendent of Public Parks in Johannesburg (b. co. Wilts., England; d. 17 July, 1903), by his wife, Grace Campbell (49, West Savile Terrace, Edinburgh), daughter of Duncan McDiarmid; b. Johannesburg, 7 Jan. 1895; came home with his mother after his father's death; entered the service of the British Linen Co. Bank on leaving school in 1911; joined the Banker's Company of the Royal Scots in Feb. 1912; volunteered for foreign service on the outbreak of war; left Liverpool about the end of May, 1915, and landed at the Dardanelles, 14 June, and was killed in action there in the attack on Achi Baba, 28 June, 1915; unmarried. He was twice hit early in the charge, and was endeavouring to get back to the dressing station when he was again struck, this time fatally.
Contributor: A Fifer in Exile
Gravesite Details
Private, Royal Scots. Age: 20.
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