Victor Harold Sims Adair (1897 - 1918)

Born 22 Jan 1897 in Wellington, New Zealand

Ancestors

Died 9 May 1918 at age 21 in France

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Victor Adair is an Anzac who served in World War One.

Biography

ADAIR, Victor Harold Sims - WW1 48149 - Army [1]

A Private in the 26th Reinforcements, New Zealand Expeditionary Force; 2nd Battalion, 12th Company Canterbury Infantry Regiment

Embarked 9th June 1917 - 16 August 1917 to Devonport, Devon, England

Transport HMNZT 85 Willochra

Victor Harold Sims Adair died of wounds in France on the 9th May 1918

His military records state that he was buried at Sailly-au-Bois Cemetery - at a village between Arras and Amiens where the cemetery was begun "in a field opposite the Town Major's dug-out" and used by field ambulances and fighting units from April to August 1918, when very close to the front line.

The Commonwealth War Graves Records state that he was buried in Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France - Grave I. J. 13. Colincamps and "Euston" is a road junction a little east of the village from which the New Zealand Division stopped the German advance and pushed the Germans back in March 1918 and the cemetery was used for burials in April and May 1918. A large number of graves from nearby cemeteries were reburied here. [2]

Note

brother - R. R. Adair

Sources

• National Archives [3]
• Commonwealth War Graves [4] [5]