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ADAMS, Thomas Edward
(Service number 7/1584)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	17/09/1887	Place of Birth	Waimate

Enlistment Information

Date	15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915	Age
Address at Enlistment	Box 60, Fairlie
Occupation	Grocer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	E.J Adams (father), Waimate
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	7th Reinforcements
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date	9 October 1915
Transport	Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

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Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

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Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
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Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Storeman

Death

Date	31 August 1956	Age	68 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Thomas Edward Adams was the eldest son of Edward James Sherriff and Annie Elizabeth (née Smith) Adams. His brother William Arthur Adams also served in World War I, and another brother - Allan John Barclay Adams, a constable at Westport - was called up.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Dtabase [03 January 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [03 January 2019]

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Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG; Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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