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Major JOHN WOOD ADAMS

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Scots

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 September 1917

Age 47 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CALAIS SOUTHERN CEMETERY

Plot B. Row Officers. Grave 9.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Adams, J.P., and Barbara Wood Adams, of Portobello, Midlothian.
  • Personal Inscription HIS FAITH "I CAN NOT BE WHERE GOD IS NOT"
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Buried or commemorated at

CALAIS SOUTHERN CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 943
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