Cemetery: Thiepval Memorial
Country: France
Area: Somme
Rank: Captain
Force: Army
Official Number:
Unit: D Coy. 10th Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers.
Country of Service: British
Details: 5th July 1916. Age 25. Son of Alice Margaret Adcock of 15 Charleville Mansions Barons Court West Kensington London and the late Charles Adcock. Educated at Ellesmere College Shropshire (Member O.r C.) Christ's College Cambridge (Medieval and Modern Languages Tripos 1912 Member O.T.C.). Schoolmaster at Real Gymnasium Frankfurt-an-der-Oder Prussia and later at Bablake School Coventry (O.C. Cadet Corps). Gazetted Sept. 1914. Pier and Face 3 C and 3 D.
Photograph by David Milborrow