{"id":5697,"date":"2025-03-22T09:21:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T09:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=5697"},"modified":"2025-03-22T09:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T09:24:06","slug":"adam-r-coy-sergt-major-8th-canadian-eexpedionary-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/03\/22\/adam-r-coy-sergt-major-8th-canadian-eexpedionary-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam R Coy Sergt Major 8th Canadian Expeditionary Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5698\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Adam-R-Coy-Sergt-Major-8th-CEF-Obit-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5698\" class=\"wp-image-5698 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Adam-R-Coy-Sergt-Major-8th-CEF-Obit-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Adam-R-Coy-Sergt-Major-8th-CEF-Obit-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Adam-R-Coy-Sergt-Major-8th-CEF-Obit-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam R Coy Sergt Major 8th Canadian Expeditionary Force<\/p><\/div>\n<p>ADAM, ROBERT, Coy.-Sergt.-Major, No. 150017, 8th Battn. Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldests. of Robert Adam, of Sunnyside (now of Ternemny), Knock-by-Keith, by his wife, Annie Gauld; b. Sunnyside, Knock-by-Keith, co. Banff, 10 April, 1891; educ. Ternemny Public School; was in the Lanarkshire Constabulary, but subsequently went to Canada in May, 1912, and settled at Winnipeg, in the employment of the Corporation Company there; volunteered for active service, and enlisted in the Canadian Infantry 1 Aug. 1915; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; saw much service there, being twice slightly wounded, and was killed in action on the Amiens front while bravely urging on his men, 9 Aug. 1918. Buried in the cemetery there. His Major wrote: &#8220;I must tell you what a dependable soldier Sergt. Adam proved himself to be; time after time he has proved himself an absolutely gallant and faithful soldier. His loss is a very great one to the whole battalion, and I can only express my sincere regret that such a splendid chap should have lost his life,&#8221; and the Chaplain: &#8220;&#8230; I knew your son very well. He was known as a capable N.C.O., and did splendid work on several occasions. He was a straight, manly fellow, and was much liked andrespected by D Coy., of which he was Sergt.-Major.&#8221; Unm.<\/p>\n<p>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADAM, ROBERT, Coy.-Sergt.-Major, No. 150017, 8th Battn. Canadian Infantry, Canadian Expeditionary Force, eldests. of Robert Adam, of Sunnyside (now of Ternemny), Knock-by-Keith, by his wife, Annie Gauld; b. Sunnyside, Knock-by-Keith, co. Banff, 10 April, 1891; educ. Ternemny Public School; was in the Lanarkshire Constabulary, but subsequently went to Canada in May, 1912, and settled at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-expeditionary-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697","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=5697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5702,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697\/revisions\/5702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}