{"id":8579,"date":"2026-11-02T20:49:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=8579"},"modified":"2026-11-02T20:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:49:28","slug":"adam-a-g-a-captain-5th-east-kent-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2026\/11\/02\/adam-a-g-a-captain-5th-east-kent-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam A G A Captain 5th East Kent Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8580\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Adam-A-G-A-Captain-5th-East-Kent-Regt-The-Sphere-18th-Mar-1916.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8580\" class=\"wp-image-8580 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Adam-A-G-A-Captain-5th-East-Kent-Regt-The-Sphere-18th-Mar-1916.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Adam-A-G-A-Captain-5th-East-Kent-Regt-The-Sphere-18th-Mar-1916.jpg 614w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Adam-A-G-A-Captain-5th-East-Kent-Regt-The-Sphere-18th-Mar-1916-191x300.jpg 191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam A G A Captain 5th East Kent Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Source : The Sphere 18th Mar 1916<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ADAM, ALAN GORDON ACHESON, Capt., 5th (Weald of Kent) Battn. (T.F.) The Buffs (East Kent Regt.), 5th s. of the late James Adam, M.D., of Malling Place, West Malling, Kent, and of his wife, Edith Emma, 3rd dau. of the late George Henry Drew, J.P., Taxing Master, High Court of Chancery, London; b. West Malling, 6 July, 1887; educ. Marlborough College, and Selwyn College, Cambridge (B.A. in 1907), and passed his final Law Examination in 1910; whilst practising at Cranbrook, Kent, in 1911, he joined the 5th Battn. of The Buffs, and was promoted Lieut. 22 Jan. 1914, and Capt. 29 Oct. following. He left with his battalion for India in Nov. 1914, and in Dec. of the following year they proceeded to Mesopotamia. Capt. Adam was present in two severe engagements, and during a third one was killed 21-22 Jan. 1916, whilst with the relieving force for Kut. He was mentioned in Despatches (Kut Relief Force) 20 Oct. 1916, and recommended for the D.S.O. The General Officer in command, in addressing the remnant who had gathered together after the first engagement, said &#8220;they had done grandly, and that seasoned and regular troops could not have done better, and that they were a credit to their regiment, their country, the Territorial Force and the Empire.&#8221; He m. at the Cathedral of Bombay, India, 8 Nov. 1915, Victoria Marjory Melville, 3rd dau. of William Shaw, of Ealing, London; s.p.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 2<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source : The Sphere 18th Mar 1916 ADAM, ALAN GORDON ACHESON, Capt., 5th (Weald of Kent) Battn. (T.F.) The Buffs (East Kent Regt.), 5th s. of the late James Adam, M.D., of Malling Place, West Malling, Kent, and of his wife, Edith Emma, 3rd dau. of the late George Henry Drew, J.P., Taxing Master, High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-kent-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8579","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=8579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8582,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8579\/revisions\/8582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}