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

Wakelin J B L/Cpl 1734 7th London Regiment

WAKELIN, JOHN BINHAM, L.-Corpl., No. 1734, 1/7th Battn. (City of London) The London Regt. (T.F.), only s. of John Wakelin, an employee at Queen’s College, Oxford, by his wife, Elizabeth Georgina, dau. of Alfred Barnes Cook; b. Oxford, 17 Dec. 1881; educ. Wesleyan School there; was employed at the Whitechapel Infirmary; joined the 2nd Volunteer Battn. Oxfordshire L.I. 22 Jan. 1900, serving with them till Dec. 1904, and the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars, 5 Jan. 1905, serving till 4 Jan. 1908. On the outbreak of war he resigned his post at Whitechapel and joined the 7th London Regt.; went to France, 18 March, 1915, and was killed in action at Festubert, 7 May, following; unm. Buried at Bethune.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1

WADE, THOMAS, Private, No. 2565, 1/7th Battn. London Regt. (T.F.), 8. of John William Wade, of 150, Lansdowne Road, Dalston, by his wife, Emily, dau. of (-) Parker; b. Hackney, 2 June, 1890; educ. Wilton Road School, Dalston; volunteered for Imperial service, and joined the 7th London in Sept. 1914, and went to France, 17 March, and died in hospital at Bethune, 5 April, 1915, of wounds received in action, 3 April. Buried in the Town Cemetery, Bethune; unm.

Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 1