Lance Corporal Henry Arthur Adams
Name recorded on All Saints' Church (Church of Ireland), Clooney Parish 1914-18 Roll of Honour. Buried in Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, Pas de Calais, France. Name commemorated on the Diamond War Memorial.
Son of John George and Elizabeth/Lizzie (nee West, who possibly died on March 22, 1919, and was buried in Londonderry City Cemetery) Adams, Cross Street / 11, Ebrington Street, Waterside, Londonderry. Brother of James (born May 7, 1893); Thomas (born April 12, 1896); John (born December 6, 1897); Joseph (born November 9, 1899); Margaret (born January 2, 1902); and Alice (born June 12, 1905).
About one fortnight after the death of Lance Corporal Adams, his sorrowing mother and sisters had the following lines inserted in a Londonderry newspaper:
'Out on a lonely battlefield
Our son's young life has gone;
He fought for King and country
And for his friends at home.
No one stood around him
To bid his last farewell;
We hope he's gone up yonder,
In Heaven with Christ to dwell.'
In the same newspaper his friend, M. H. Crawford, placed the following lines, in memory of Henry Arthur Adams:
'The midnight stars are shining
On the grave I cannot see,
Where sleeping, without dreaming,
Lies the one so dear to me.'