{"id":3646,"date":"2023-07-08T10:45:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T09:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2023-07-08T10:45:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T09:45:50","slug":"adair-w-f-captain-indian-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2023\/07\/08\/adair-w-f-captain-indian-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Adair W F Captain Indian Army"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CAPTAIN WILLIAM FINLAY ADAIR, 129th DUKE OF CONNAUGHT’S OWN BALUCHIS.<\/p>\n

was born at Mauchline, Ayrshire. Scotland, on the 21st September, 1877, the youngest son of the late Major Wallace Adair, Northumberland Fusiliers (the “Fighting Fifth “). He was educated at the French College at St. Serven, Brittany, and afterwards in Jersey. He obtained his commission as unattached Second Lieutenant in January, 1897, joining the Indian Staff Corps in March, 1898, in which he became Lieutenant in July, 1899, and Captain in January, 1906. He saw most of his service with the 130th King George’s Own Baluchis, of which for some years he was Adjutant, being transferred to the 129th, on promotion, as Double Company Commander, and he was also qualified as a First Class Interpreter in French. He served in China in 1900 and received the medal; in the operations in Somaliland, 1902, receiving the medal and clasp, and in operations in the interior, Aden. 1903-04.<\/p>\n

He was a member of the Junior Army and Navy Club, and of the Bath and County Club, Bath. Captain Adair was killed on the 30th October, 1914, at Hollebeke, Belgium, having been, at his own request, left mortally wounded in a trench when his men had to retire. The following account of the circumstances was received by his relatives:” On October 30th, 1914. at Hollebeke, Belgium, Captain Adair had orders from his General to retire, as the Germans were close up; while giving instructions to his men he was shot high up under the arm. The native Corporal wished to carry him away, but he refused, fearing to delay them, and so insisted on being left in the trench alone. The Germans came up almost immediately, and nothing further has been heard. The Corporal, who said Captain Adair was mortally wounded and could not have lived long, led the men back to a safe position already prepared, without any loss, and so the sacrifice was not in vain.”<\/p>\n

Captain Adair was mentioned in Sir John French’s Despatch of 14th January, 1915.<\/p>\n

Source : The Bond Of Sacrifice Vol 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CAPTAIN WILLIAM FINLAY ADAIR, 129th DUKE OF CONNAUGHT’S OWN BALUCHIS. was born at Mauchline, Ayrshire. Scotland, on the 21st September, 1877, the youngest son of the late Major Wallace Adair, Northumberland Fusiliers (the “Fighting Fifth “). He was educated at the French College at St. Serven, Brittany, and afterwards in Jersey. He obtained his commission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3648,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/revisions\/3648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}