Burial service for Rifleman Frederick Thomas Adams, 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade

A burial service for Rifleman Frederick Thomas Adams, 3432, 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade will be held at 2.30pm (local time) on 9 November 2023 at CWGC’s Passchendaele New British Cemetery, Belgium.

Rifleman Adams died on 19 November 1917 while serving with the 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade. He was previously commemorated on the CWGC Tyne Cot Memorial.

Following the recovery of Rifleman Adams’s remains, the CWGC will mark his grave with a Commission headstone, bearing his name and a personal inscription chosen by his family. We will care for his final resting place in perpetuity.

The service has been organised by the British Ministry of Defence’s Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre and will be attended by Rifleman Adams’s family, Defence Staff, Regimental representatives, CWGC staff and local dignitaries.