Joseph Reginald Adams

Rank:

Private

Regimental number:

820945

Unit at enlistment:

141st Battalion

Force:

C.E.F.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

November 26th, 1917

Cemetery:

Etaples Military Cemetery - Pas de Calais, France - XXX.M.32.

Commemorated at:

Brant Avenue Methodist Church, Adams Gold Medal Award, Victoria College - University of Toronto

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

York

Birth city:

Toronto, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

Port Arthur, Ontario

Next of kin address:

414 Fourth Avenue, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Trade or calling:

Student

Employer:

University of Toronto

Religious denominations:

Methodist

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

Letters and documents

Circumstances of Casualty: Died of Wounds, (Shrapnel Wound fracture Right Shoulder) at # 26 General Hospital, Etaples.
Location of Unit at Time of Casualty: Battalion resting after Passchendaele Ridge Operations.

BX December 4, 1917

Private Joseph Reginald Adams Died of Wounds

Word was received in the city today that Private Reginald Adams, son of Reverend G.K.B. Adams, a former pastor of the Brant Avenue Methodist Church, has made the supreme sacrifice. He was wounded on Nov. 11 and died shortly afterwards in the hospital. Reg Adams was educated in Brantford Collegiate Institute. His father is now in Saskatoon and he enlisted in the West.

Social Sciences Award – Victoria College, University of Toronto

The Adams Gold Medal

Donor: The Reverend and Mrs. G.K.B. Adams of Saskatoon in memory of their son,
Lieutenant Joseph Reginald Adams.

Having resigned his commission he went to France as a sergeant in a machine gun
Section of the 8th Battalion, and died of wounds at Etaples in November 1917.

Terms: Awarded to the graduating student with highest overall A standing who has completed
the Specialist Program in Economics and or Political Science.