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VC351 The Reverend James William Adams
BORN 24 November 1839
DIED 20 October 1903 AGE 63
VC Won 11 December 1879 AGE 40
Place VC Won Killa Kazi
War/Campaign Second Afghan War, Afghanistan
Name James William Adams No.
VC Issue No. 351 Awards VC
Regiment Indian Army, Kabul Field Force, Bengal Ecclesiastical Department
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Reverend
Rank End Of Career Reverend
Place Of Birth Cork, Co. Cork, Ireland
Place Of Death Ashwell Rectory, Rutland, England
Buried/Location Ashes Saint Mary's Churchyard, Cottesmore Road, Ashwell, Rutland, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 24 October 1903
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 26 August 1881
VC Presented 1 December 1881 by Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Saint Mary's Churchyard, Cottesmore Road, Ashwell, Rutland
P Plaque at Stow Bardolph Church, Norfolk (erected by Sir Thomas Hare)
P Named on vicars memorial board, St Mary’s, Ashwell, Rutland
P Plaque at Church, Fens (erected by Lord Roberts VC)
Plaque at St John's Church, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
By The Way…
First clergyman and fifth civilian to be awarded the VC
VC Held By
Not known
