Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Great War Memorial Plaque to Private S. E. Adams, Dorset Yeomanry, who was killed in action at Gallipoli on 21 August 1915 and was posthumously Mentioned in Despatches for distinguished and gallant services

Memorial Plaque (Stanley Edgar Adams) very fine £80-£100

M.I.D. London Gazette 13 July 1916

Stanley Edgar Adams was born in Holnest, Dorset, and attested at Sherborne, Dorset, for the Dorset Yeomanry for service during the Great War, entering the Egyptian theatre on 23 April 1915. He later served at Gallipoli where he was killed in action on 21 August 1915. He was posthumously Mentioned in Despatches for distinguished and gallant services rendered during the period of General Sir Charles Munro’s Command of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (London Gazette 13 July 1916). He is buried in Green Hill Cemetery, Turkey.

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