{"id":6002,"date":"2025-03-26T20:45:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6002"},"modified":"2025-03-26T20:45:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:45:01","slug":"adamson-g-sergt-265504-6th-seaforth-highlanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/03\/26\/adamson-g-sergt-265504-6th-seaforth-highlanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Adamson G Sergt 265504 6th Seaforth Highlanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ADAMSON, GEORGE, Sergt., 1\/6th (Territorial) Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (Rossshire Buffs, The Duke of Albany&#8217;s), eldest s. of George Adamson, of Fortingall, co. Perth: b. Fortingall, Aberfeldy, co. Perth, 9 July, 1891; educ. there; joined the Seaforth Highlanders soon after the outbreak of war, 9 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 3 May, 1915, and was killed in action by a sniper while attacking at Rheims 23 July, 1918. Buried in Bois de l&#8217;Aulnay British Cemetery, Tonchery-sur-Vesle, near Marfaux, south-west of Rheims. His Commanding Officer wrote that he was one of his best men then holding the rank of Sergt. He m. at the Parish Church, Kempton, 3 June, 1915, Kathleen Mary, eldest dau. of George Ensor, and had two daus.: Margaret Mary, b. 11 July, 1916, and Georgina Ann, b. (posthumous) 2 Feb.1919.<\/p>\n<p>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADAMSON, GEORGE, Sergt., 1\/6th (Territorial) Battn. Seaforth Highlanders (Rossshire Buffs, The Duke of Albany&#8217;s), eldest s. of George Adamson, of Fortingall, co. Perth: b. Fortingall, Aberfeldy, co. Perth, 9 July, 1891; educ. there; joined the Seaforth Highlanders soon after the outbreak of war, 9 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seaforth-highlanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002","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=6002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6003,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6002\/revisions\/6003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}