Service Number
3rd/6902
Rank
Sergeant
Firstname
William
Lastname
Adair
Awards
Military Medal - Mentioned in Despatches
Battalion
6th Battalion D Coy East Yorkshire Regiment
Notes

Attested 30 August 1914 – Medal Index Card entered 2b Balkans 14 July 1915 – Posted wounded Hull Daily Mail 1st September 1915 – Wounded (Snapper September 1915) – Ballybunion 21 March 1916 To be paid Lance Sergeant vice Windsor (promoted) – Mentioned in General Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatches 11 December 1915 – London Gazette 28 January 1916 – For 24 hours Sergeant Adair was a prisoner in German Hands, but escaped. Although wounded in the leg, he succeeded in outwitting his persuers, after hiding in a shell hole for two days and nights made his way back to our lines. – In hospital at York recovering from wound 28 April 1917 – 6th Battalion Presented Military Medal Ribbon 31 August 1917 (War Diary) – Military Medal London Gazette 28 September 1917 – Transferred Class Z Army Reserve – Died 24 November 1949 Obituary Snapper Dec 1949 – Died Snapper 1950 page 20

Birthplace
Jarrow
Residence
Leamside Durham