Adams D S L/Sergt 3022 7th London Regiment
ADAMS, DAVID SCOTT, L.-Sergt., No. 3022, 1/7th Battn. The London Regt. (T.F.), 1st s. of David Adams, Engine Driver, The Highland Railway Coy., by his wife, Jane Ann, dau. of David Scott; b. Inverness, 15 July, 1895; educ. Breadalbane Academy, Aberfeldy, and on leaving school entered the Union Bank of Scotland, Ltd., Aberfeldy, and was later appointed to the National Bank of India, London. Three months after the outbreak of war he joined the 1/7th Battn., and was drafted to France in March, 1915; was present in the actions at Festubert and Loos, and was killed by the bursting of a shell in the trenches near Vermelles, 20 Oct. 1915. He was buried there, and a cross bearing his name marks the place. He had been recommended for a commission and also for the D.C.M. The Sergt.-Major of his company wrote that out of the great number of fine men they had lost, there was no one who would be missed more or whom they could less afford to lose; adding: “He saw no fear in anything he was put to.” Unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 2