Lance Corporal Archie Adams

Lance Corporal Adams served in the 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, service number 40567.

He was the son of Joseph and Mary Adams, of White Street, Kibworth Beauchamp, and an employee of Poynor’s, a hosiery business in Kibworth.

He was aged 21 when he was killed on 28th November 1916.

Lance Corporal Adams was awarded the Victory Medal and the British War Medal, and is buried at the Bethune Town Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, plot reference VI. A. 16.

He is also commemorated on a small monument at the graves of his parents at Kibworth Cemetery, section D, graves 1410 and 1411.