Adamson R W 2nd Lt 7th Durham Light Infantry
2nd Lieut. ROBERT WILLIAM ADAMSON,
7th Durham Light Infantry, was the eldest son of J. Adamson, J.P., of Durham, and was born in 1873. He came to the School as a Day Boy in May, 1886. He played in the XV. in 1890, and, after leaving in December of that year, played for Durham County, and also for the Durham City Team. During the South African War he served for three years as a volunteer in the North Staffordshire Regiment, afterwards being employed in the National Provincial Bank at Sunderland.
He was gazetted to the 7th Durham Light Infantry in October, 1914, and went to France with the 1/7th Battalion on the 19th April, 1915. His Division was plunged straight into the Second Battle of Ypres, and he was reported missing on the 24th of May, and later was officially presumed to have been killed on that date.
R. W. Adamson was the elder brother of Capt. C. Y. Adamson, O.D., who was killed on the Salonika Front.
Source : The War Record Of Old Dunelmians 1914-1919