Military service
Service number:
A/22454
Age:
34
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Essex Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
October 3, 1907
Hamilton, Ontario
Enlistment:
June 29, 1940
Windsor, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 3.
Additional information
Son of Charles Peter and Ethel Mae Adams of Amherstburg, Ontario. Husband of Patricia Helene Adams, of Amherstburg, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Charles Peter Adams
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Photo of Charles P. Adams
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Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Brookwood Memorial
Photo taken by John S. Brehaut during the Road to Freedom Tour of 2003. -
Brookwood Memorial
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Inscription
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Inscription
Private CHARLES PETER ADAMS is one of twenty members of the Essex Scottish Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom.
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Peter Adams
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Peter Adams
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Peter Adams
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Peter Adams
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Peter Adams
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Peter Adams
Digital gallery of
Private Charles Peter Adams
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 54 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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