{"id":8607,"date":"2026-11-04T19:47:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=8607"},"modified":"2026-11-04T19:47:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:47:42","slug":"adcock-j-r-sergt-9914-2nd-east-surrey-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/adcock-j-r-sergt-9914-2nd-east-surrey-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Adcock J R Sergt 9914 2nd East Surrey Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ADCOCK, JOSEPH ROBERT, Sergt., No. 9914, 1st, attached 2nd, Battn. The East Surrey Regt., s. of Joseph Adcock, of Worcester Park, formerly a soldier in the same regiment, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of James Moore; b. Wandsworth, 1 Oct. 1891; educ. Cheam Council School; enlisted 17 Jan. 1910; became L.-Corpl. 1911; Corpl. 1912, and Sergt. 27 Sept. 1914; served with the Expeditionary Force in France from 6 March, 1915, and was killed in action at the Battle of Ypres 9 May following. A comrade of Sergt. Adcock&#8217;s wrote that both of them were in an advanced trench of the line and were ordered to retire, and that he (Adcock) was seen to fall after running a short distance. He m. at Worcester Park Catholic Church, 14 Feb. 1914, Ann Elizabeth (294, Kingston Road, Raynes Park), dau. of Horace George Goulding, of Raynes Park, and had a son, Joseph William, b. 17 July, 1914.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 2<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADCOCK, JOSEPH ROBERT, Sergt., No. 9914, 1st, attached 2nd, Battn. The East Surrey Regt., s. of Joseph Adcock, of Worcester Park, formerly a soldier in the same regiment, by his wife, Margaret, dau. of James Moore; b. Wandsworth, 1 Oct. 1891; educ. Cheam Council School; enlisted 17 Jan. 1910; became L.-Corpl. 1911; Corpl. 1912, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-surrey-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607","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=8607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8609,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8607\/revisions\/8609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}