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Daniel ADAMSON

Lieutenant Daniel ADAMSON
Royal Engineers
attached to 2nd Queen Victoria's Own Sapper and Miners

Died of Cholera,   Saturday 7th June 1919,   Kohat, India,   age 23

Home address:St Bees School, St Bees, Cumberland
Born:1896, Denton, Lancashire
Parents:Alice Maud Adamson and Daniel Adamson
211 Two Trees Lane, Denton, Lancashire
Later of Longlands, Godley, Hyde, Cheshire.
Marital status:Single
Occupation:School pupil
Enlisted:as a cadet at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
Remembered:Kohat Cemetery, (now in Pakistan)
grave 174
India Gate Memorial, Delhi, India,
face 1.
Link to Hyde:Lived near Hyde

Kohat is now in Pakistan, near the frontier with Afghanistan.

From St Bees School Roll of Honour Book:

Lieut D. Adamson.
 Lieut. D. Adamson, R.E., died in India on June 7 1919.   He came to St. Bees with a scholarship from Mostyn House, Parkgate, in 1911, and was at School till 1913.   On leaving he entered the engineering workshops of Messrs. J. Adamson & Co. at Hyde.   Later he entered Woolwich as a prize cadet, and in February 1917 was gazetted to the Royal Engineers, and received the Pollock Gold Medal.   He went to France in September 1917, and was wounded in May 1918.   He was gazetted Lieut. R.E., as from August 1918 and in December left for India, where he was nominally stationed at Bangalore, but was mobilised with his company of the 2nd Q.V.O. Sappers and Miners (to which he was attached) and proceeded to the frontier, where he died of cholera at Kohat.

In 1851 Daniel's uncle (Daniel Adamson, 1820 - 1890) founded an engineering company, Daniel Adamson and Company, manufacturers of engines and industrial boilers.   He was also one of the founders and first chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal Company.   The steam tug Daniel Adamson was named after him.   In 2017 it was restored to working condition and now carries passengers on the Manchester Ship Canal and Weaver Navigation.

In 1874 Daniel's grandfather (Joseph Adamson, 1834-1921) co-founded an engineering company, Joseph Adamson and Company, manufacturers of industrial boilers and cranes, based in Croft St, Hyde, Cheshire.   Daniel's father (Daniel Adamson) later took over that company.