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Percy Lionel Adams
29/09/1886 - 03/10/1918
CWGC Cemetery: Doingt Communal Cemetery ExtentionOther Memorials: St Mary's Church, Shortlands, Shortlands War Memorial, Beckenham War Memorial
Place of birth: Streatham, Surrey
Last known address in Bromley: 53 Bromley Road
Last known address in Bromley: 53 Bromley Road
Military information
Regiment/Service: London RegimentBattalion/Ship: attd Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Rank: Lieutenant
Number: 2377 & 5568
Family information
Parents: Thomas & Eveline Anne Adams (nee Crowhurst)Parents' occupation: Wholesale stationer & printer
Siblings: Walter Crowhurst, Edward Horace, Ralph Ernest, Frederick Charles (d), Thomas Stanley, Albert,Cyril
Census information
1891Address: 23 The Avenue, Beckenham
1901
Address: 53 Bromley Road, Beckenham
1911
Address: The Oaks, Shortlands
Occupation: Paper agent
Extra details
Percy was the second youngest of Thomas and Eveline Anne Adams' eight sons. The family moved to Beckenham in 1890. The Book of Remembrance at St Mary's Church, Shortlands records that Percy was educated at Monckton Coombe School but they have no record of him.
In 1902 he was apprenticed to his brother Thomas as a pewterer but by 1911 they are both show on the census as being in the stationery business, possibly working for their father.
Percy enlisted in the London Regiment (Artist's Rifles) in 1914, transferring to the Machine Gun Corps. He died on 29th September 1918 and is buried in Doingt Communal Cemetery Extention.
Additional photographs
Source: St Mary's Shortlands Book of Remembrance
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