ADAMS John Edward Claxton
Sergeant, 58th M.A. Sect., Royal Engineers. Died 11/10/1916. Age 29.
No known grave. Commemorated: THIEPVAL MEMORIAL Somme, France and on St Luke’s War Memorial, Cambridge. Remembered on a family grave in Histon Road Cemetery.
The family lived in Hertford Street and later in Carlyle Road, Cambridge.
March 2009 Location C5.97
Memorial Inscription at C5.97: IN / LOVING MEMORY OF / JOHN ADAMS / MARCH 184? – DEC 1911 / FANNY ADAMS / WIFE OF THE ABOVE / JULY 185? – FEB 1942 / JANE ADAMS DAUGHTER / JANY. 188? – SEPT 1948 / FANNY ADAMS DAUGHTER / APRIL 187? – APRIL 1951 / ALSO OF SGT. JOHN E.C. ADAMS R.E. SON / KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE 1916.