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Lestock Handley Adams

In memory of:

Lieutenant Lestock Handley Adams

April 22, 1918

Military Service


Age:

30

Force:

Army

Unit:

Rifle Brigade

Division:

1st Battalion

Additional Information


Son of the Rev. H. F. S. Adams, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Red Hill; husband of Emilie Anderson Adams, of Fern, Buxton.

Commemorated on Page 582 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

LE VERTANNOY BRITISH CEMETERY (HINGES)
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

A. 2.

Location:

Le Vertannoy is a hamlet nearly 1 kilometre west of the village of Hinges, which is a small village 2 kilometres north west of the town of Bethune in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais. From the church in Hinges head north-west towards Gonnehem and after 500 metres turn left. The cemetery is approximately 200 metres on the left.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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