Hillsdale, Dec. 5. William Adams, Hillsdale, farm hand, sent overseas with the American expeditionary forces, died October 2 in England of pneumonia. His name appears in today's casualty lists. Word of his passing , has also come from the Red Cross to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Adams. He has been buried in the Morn Hill, England, cemetery. Besides the parents two brothers, James , and Kenneth, and one sister, Sarah, survive him.
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I have been working on a project regarding my local Cemetery in Winchester England. Magdalen Hill Cemetery is in the same road that I live in. During WW1 551 US Personnel were buried there with full military Honours. Many of them were young soldiers freshly out of training in the US. Sadly they contracted the Influenza either in the training camps in the US, or on the ships travelling over to the UK en-route to France. often the Influenza progressed to pneumonia, which sadly caused their deaths. I have information regarding this soldier which I thought you might like to use. William died in the Portsmouth Military Hospital In Hampshire England and was buried in the Cemetery on 4th October 1918. The Burial records show his age as 22 years. In 1920 the authorities here worked with the families to exhume the remains. At the request of the families they were either moved to Brookwood American Military Cemetery in Surrey, England or repatriated to the USA for re-burial there. It would appear that his family requested for him to be reinterred in the US. His remains were exhumed on 17 April 1920, and sent back to the US. His body left Southampton England on 11 May 1920 onboard The Princess Matoika and arrived in Hoboken New Jersey on 23 May 1920. He was then handed over to his next of Kin, James Clark Adams of 1 Hillsdale Illinois. I hope this information will be of help to you and others.
Contributed by Find-A-Grave member Lorraine Boardman
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I have been working on a project regarding my local Cemetery in Winchester England. Magdalen Hill Cemetery is in the same road that I live in. During WW1 551 US Personnel were buried there with full military Honours. Many of them were young soldiers freshly out of training in the US. Sadly they contracted the Influenza either in the training camps in the US, or on the ships travelling over to the UK en-route to France. often the Influenza progressed to pneumonia, which sadly caused their deaths. I have information regarding this soldier which I thought you might like to use. William died in the Portsmouth Military Hospital In Hampshire England and was buried in the Cemetery on 4th October 1918. The Burial records show his age as 22 years. In 1920 the authorities here worked with the families to exhume the remains. At the request of the families they were either moved to Brookwood American Military Cemetery in Surrey, England or repatriated to the USA for re-burial there. It would appear that his family requested for him to be reinterred in the US. His remains were exhumed on 17 April 1920, and sent back to the US. His body left Southampton England on 11 May 1920 onboard The Princess Matoika and arrived in Hoboken New Jersey on 23 May 1920. He was then handed over to his next of Kin, James Clark Adams of 1 Hillsdale Illinois. I hope this information will be of help to you and others.
Contributed by Find-A-Grave member Lorraine Boardman
Hillsdale, Dec. 5. William Adams, Hillsdale, farm hand, sent overseas with the American expeditionary forces, died October 2 in England of pneumonia. His name appears in today's casualty lists. Word of his passing , has also come from the Red Cross to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Adams. He has been buried in the Morn Hill, England, cemetery. Besides the parents two brothers, James , and Kenneth, and one sister, Sarah, survive him.
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I have been working on a project regarding my local Cemetery in Winchester England. Magdalen Hill Cemetery is in the same road that I live in. During WW1 551 US Personnel were buried there with full military Honours. Many of them were young soldiers freshly out of training in the US. Sadly they contracted the Influenza either in the training camps in the US, or on the ships travelling over to the UK en-route to France. often the Influenza progressed to pneumonia, which sadly caused their deaths. I have information regarding this soldier which I thought you might like to use. William died in the Portsmouth Military Hospital In Hampshire England and was buried in the Cemetery on 4th October 1918. The Burial records show his age as 22 years. In 1920 the authorities here worked with the families to exhume the remains. At the request of the families they were either moved to Brookwood American Military Cemetery in Surrey, England or repatriated to the USA for re-burial there. It would appear that his family requested for him to be reinterred in the US. His remains were exhumed on 17 April 1920, and sent back to the US. His body left Southampton England on 11 May 1920 onboard The Princess Matoika and arrived in Hoboken New Jersey on 23 May 1920. He was then handed over to his next of Kin, James Clark Adams of 1 Hillsdale Illinois. I hope this information will be of help to you and others.
Contributed by Find-A-Grave member Lorraine Boardman
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I have been working on a project regarding my local Cemetery in Winchester England. Magdalen Hill Cemetery is in the same road that I live in. During WW1 551 US Personnel were buried there with full military Honours. Many of them were young soldiers freshly out of training in the US. Sadly they contracted the Influenza either in the training camps in the US, or on the ships travelling over to the UK en-route to France. often the Influenza progressed to pneumonia, which sadly caused their deaths. I have information regarding this soldier which I thought you might like to use. William died in the Portsmouth Military Hospital In Hampshire England and was buried in the Cemetery on 4th October 1918. The Burial records show his age as 22 years. In 1920 the authorities here worked with the families to exhume the remains. At the request of the families they were either moved to Brookwood American Military Cemetery in Surrey, England or repatriated to the USA for re-burial there. It would appear that his family requested for him to be reinterred in the US. His remains were exhumed on 17 April 1920, and sent back to the US. His body left Southampton England on 11 May 1920 onboard The Princess Matoika and arrived in Hoboken New Jersey on 23 May 1920. He was then handed over to his next of Kin, James Clark Adams of 1 Hillsdale Illinois. I hope this information will be of help to you and others.
Contributed by Find-A-Grave member Lorraine Boardman
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