Lieutenant Daniel ADAMSON
Royal Engineersattached 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, LancashireLater 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 174India Gate Memorial, Delhi, India, face 1.
Link to Hyde:
Lived near Hyde
Kohat is in Pakistan, near the frontier with Afghanistan. Before 1947 it was in India.
From a 1925 Grave Registration Report on Kohat Cemetery
As this cemetery lies west of the Indus and is liable to desecration, the above names will probably be commemorated on the ATTOCK MEMORIAL irrespective of whether they are otherwise commemorated or not.
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.
A Tale of Four Daniel Adamsons, one being a ship.
There were two Adamson brothers Daniel (1820 – 1890) and Joseph (1834 – 1921) the Lieutenant’s grandfather. They were both engineers, and part of a large family from Shildon, Co Durham.
In 1851 Daniel founded an engineering company, Daniel Adamson and Company, manufacturers of engines and industrial boilers, based in Dukinfield. 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 Joseph co-founded an engineering company, Joseph Adamson and Company, manufacturers of industrial boilers and cranes, based in Hyde. His son, Daniel Adamson the Lieutenant’s father, later took over that company.