Adamson C Y Captain 8th Royal Scots Fusiliers
Captain and Quartermaster CHARLES YOUNG ADAMSON,
Northumberland Fusiliers, the second son of J. Adamson, Esq., Durham, was born in 1875, and entered the School as a Day Boy in January, 1887. He played in the XI., of which he was Captain, from 1890 to 1893, and in the XV. from 1890 to 1892. He was a Monitor, and left in 1893. As a cricketer and footballer he represented his County for many years, and played for the North XV. v. the South on three occasions. In 1899 he was a member of the English XV. which toured Australia, and while there joined the Queensland Volunteers, with which force he saw much fighting in the South African War. Subsequently he paid a second visit to Australia, and while there played cricket for Queensland against South Australia.
When the war broke out Captain Adamson was in partnership with his father as a Stock and Share Broker. He soon obtained a commission as Quartermaster to the 23rd (Tyneside Scottish) Northumberland Fusiliers. At the beginning of 1918 he went to Salonika, and was attached to a Battallion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers. He was serving with that Regiment when he was killed in action in September, 1918.
He took the keenest interest in the School football and cricket, and the teams of later generations owed much to his enthusiastic coaching and help.
Capt. Adamson married Miss Lodge, daughter of the late Rev. J. A. Lodge, Vicar of Haverton Hill, and leaves two sons.
Source : The War Record Of Old Dunelmians 1914-1919