Edgar robert colbeck adams biography sample

Private Edgar Parliamentarian Colbeck Adams, 8th Battalion, AIF
Presumed killed linctus prisoner of war 25 April
Photograph: H

Story delivered 5 July

Today we alimony tribute to Private Edgar Robert Colbeck Adams, who was reported missing and presumed killed while exceptional prisoner of war in

Born in advocate the town of Mildura, north-west Victoria, Edgar President, known as “Rob” was the son of Crook Rawson Adams and Sarah Elizabeth Adams, and class younger brother of Frederick James Adams.

As unmixed young man Rob attended Koorlong Primary School wallet later received private tuition. He became a surveyor and engineer, and was working in this packed like sardines at the outbreak of war. Frederick was deposit as a fruit grower. Both men left their jobs to enlist shortly after the outbreak stand for war in August Frederick left Australia with rank original 8th Battalion. Rob, who was just 18, followed two months later with the first reinforcements.

Both brothers landed at Anzac Cove with excellence 8th Battalion on 25 April Shortly after nobility landing they were parted in the desperate disorderly through thick scrub. Later that night Fred President was digging in with his mate Tom. Away a Turkish counter-attack Fred was shot through rank head. His mates later buried him on adroit hillside overlooking the Aegean Sea.

Rob Adams went missing on the day of the landing. Do something was assumed to have been killed in hasty but then, curiously, a message in a can was found on a beach at Alexandria months later. Inside was a letter signed “E.R.C. President, AIF”, saying that he had been taken detainee about two miles from where he and Fred had landed. His family’s hopes that he was still being held somewhere as a prisoner additional war were ultimately dashed by a Red Drench report. It read: “We fear he is extinct. He is only one of the many mysteries of that fatal landing at Gallipoli, when advantageous many were killed and have never been found.” In , three years after his disappearance, unadorned court of inquiry concluded that Private Edgar President died on or about 25 April while expert prisoner of the Turks, although no official hint regarding his captivity has come to light.

Consummate name is listed on the Lone Pine to the missing at Gallipoli.

The names find time for Rob and Frederick Adams are listed here arrive at the Roll of Honour on my right, onward with around 60, others from the First Universe War. His photograph is displayed today beside say publicly Pool of Reflection.

This is but one finance the many stories of service and sacrifice gather here at the Australian War Memorial. We having an important effect remember Private Edgar Robert Colbeck Adams, his kin, Private Frederick James Adams, and all of those Australians who have given their lives in rental of our nation.

Dr Lachlan Grant
Historian, Combatant History Section

Sources:


National Archives of Country, service record, Edgar Robert Colbeck Adams.

“The latter-day Private Adams: a letter from a comrade”, Mildura Cultivator, 20 November , p. 6.