ADAMS, W., D.C.M., Private, No. 13208, 2nd (formerly 1st) Battn. South Wales Borderers, s. of the late James Adams, by his wife, Harriet (Newland Almshouses, Gloucestershire); b. at Redbrook, co. Glos.; enlisted 1901; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and afterwards at the Dardanelles, and was killed in action there, July, 1915. He was awarded the D.C.M. [London Gazette, 30 June, 1915] “for conspicuous gallantry from the 21st to 23rd December, 1914, near Festubert. Difficulties arose in getting necessary supplies to the men in the forward trenches, and the only known communication trench being impassable, he, with another man, carried the rations over a fire-swept zone of 1,000 yards after the ration party had been dispersed by heavy fire. He subsequently returned and took up ammunition to the same trenches.”
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 2