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ADAMSON, Henry
(Service number 564)

Henry Adamson (inset) and family — Pictured are:
Back Row: Alex, Jessie, Margaret, Thomas;
Front Row: Ina, Lucy (nee Jones), William, Adam, and Lucy (Courtesy of M Hanifin )

Albury War Memorial, 2015 — (Courtesy of J Sutherland )

Albury War Memorial, 2015 additions to north face — (Courtesy of J Sutherland )

Mackenzie War Memorial (Fairlie) - 2016 additional 1914-1918 names.jpg — (Courtesy of C Clement )

Waimate War Memorial, pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #01)

Waimate War Memorial (left panel), pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #04)

Aliases	Harry
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth	Fairlie

Enlistment Information

Date	1 September 1914	Age	23
Address at Enlistment	Sydney, Australia
Occupation	Slaughterman
Previous Military Experience	Two years senior cadets; one year Tumbarumba, NSW, Rifle Club; two years 2nd Infantry, NZ Infantry
Marital Status
Next of Kin	Mrs M. Adamson (wife), c/- Mrs Chaffery, Howard Cottage, East St, Chickerell, Weymouth, England
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	Australian Imperial Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation
Unit, Squadron, or Ship
Date	20 October 1914
Transport	HMAT Euripides
Embarked From	Sydney	Destination

Other Units Served With	3rd Battalion
Last Unit Served With	3rd Battalion (Infantry), Australian Army

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	25 July 1916	Age	25
Place of Death	Pozieres, France
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Villers–Bretonneux Memorial, France
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial; Albury War Memorial; Mackenzie War Memorial, Fairlie, 2016 additions

Biographical Notes

A son of Adam and Lucy (nee Jones) Adamson who later (from about 1917) had a small fruit farm at Hook near Waimate. Harry was also the grandson of Thomas & Margaret Adamson of ‘Roseburn’ Lower Opawa Valley Rd (Mt Nessing Rd).

When Harry was aged two, his family moved to Albury where his father worked as a foreman. Harry attended Albury School, but later moved to Sydney around 1913 (he appeared in court for failing to turn up to a parade in St Andrews in 1913 while working at the Pareora Freezing Works). Later still he married in England, but left no children.

Harry was killed in action in France in 1916, but his body was not recovered.

Sources

AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army; Australian War Memorial www.awm.gov.au; http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3022237; CWGC (18 June 2014); Albury War Record (South Canterbury Museum); SCRoll web submission from M Hanifin, 24 February 2015; SCRoll web subnmission from J Sutherland, 16 April 2015 and 17 April (specifying that he had found him appearing in court for failing to attend a parade at St Andrews)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald; Jeremy Sutherland; Tony Rippin

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