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VC759   Tom Edwin Adlam

Name   Tom Edwin Adlam   No.      

VC Issue No.   759   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Bedfordshire Regiment, 7th Battalion

Later   

Now   Royal Anglian Regiment

Rank VC Won   Temporary Second Lieutenant

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant Colonel

Place Of Birth   Waterloo Gardens, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

Place Of Death   Hayling Island, Hampshire, England

Buried/Location Ashes   Parish Church of St Matthew Churchyard, Blackmoor, near Liss, Hampshire, England

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   25 November 1916

VC Presented   2 December 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Parish Church of St Matthew Churchyard, Blackmoor, near Liss, Hampshire, England

P  Victoria Cross Display,  Royal British Legion, Endless Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire

P  Portrait, The Guildhall, Salisbury, Wiltshire

Memorial Plaque, Bishop Wordsworth School, Salisbury, Wiltshire

Block Of Flats, Salisbury, Wiltshire

By The Way…

He used to laugh at his name being Tom Edwin Adlam, TEA

VC Held By

Salisbury Civic Hall, Wiltshire, England

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BORN   21 October 1893

DIED   28 May 1978   AGE   81

VC Won   27 September 1916   AGE   22

Place VC Won   Thiepval, Somme, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1916

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