145 of 876 Capt Arthur Innes Adam ‘A` Company 1st Battalion Cambridgeshire Regiment Died 16th September 1916 age 22

Son of Adela Marion Adam M.A. of 29 Barton Road Cambridge and the late Dr James Adam

Arthur had one brother and one sister Neil and Barbara

Capt Adam was a Litt. D Scholar of Winchester College and of Balliol College Oxford with 1st Class Honours Moderations in 1914

Having read the classics in original Greek while still a child, he excelled at Winchester. He went to Oxford, where he studied at Balliol and showed every promise of a career surpassing his father’s. Arthur Adam received a first Mods in March 1914 and started his work on ‘Greats’. In September of that year he received a Commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Cambridgeshire Regiment.

Capt Adam went to France on 19th June 1915 to join the 1st/1st Battalion Cambridgeshire Regiment.  They fought on the Somme during the following summer, along with most of the rest of the British Expeditionary Force, during which time he was promoted to Captain, although still only 22 years old.  On 3rd September 1915 the Cambridgeshires fought at Hamel, at the ruins of the village on Thiepval Ridge. Then on the 15that the battle of Flers-Courcelette  where Captain Adam went missing.  No news of him ever returned to his unit but his body was found after the war having been buried by the Germans.

Arthur received British, Victory and 15 Star Medals

Capt Arthur Innes Adam is remembered with honour at Achiet-Le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension

Keith Wainwright