Private Irvin St.Clair Adams

1. Private (Army). 1915-12-29 ?
2. Private, 25th Battalion, Infantry (Army).

Private Irvin St. Clair Adams was born in Mahone Bay on 10 July 1897. He was the son of the Henry and Mary Adams, of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia (it appears that Henry Adams had died when Irvin was young and that Mary remarried a man named Dorey). Irvin and another 18-year-old, Dennis Barry, enlisted together in Lunenburg on 29 December 1915. Dennis was given the service number 733655 and Irvin, who was standing next in line, was given 733656. During the 2nd Battle of Arras the battalion sent out reconnaissance patrols on the nights of 12 and 13 June 1918. Twenty-one men would be wounded on the 12 June patrol and 22 men would be wounded on the 13 June action – Irvine was one of the wounded. He would die of his wounds on 14 June 1918 (two days after Halton Dorey).