Andrew Adcock

Additional information
1911 Census. A school boy.

Son of George, an iron foundry labourer, and Maria Adcock, of 17, Blue Mountains, Little Eaton, Derbyshire.

Andrew Adcock was 16 when he joined the army in 1915. He was seen off by members of his family as he left to go to France. One of these was his 6 year old sister, the mother of a current Little Eaton resident. His sister and the rest of the family never saw him again. He was killed on April 15th 1918 aged 19. He served in the Lincolnshire Regiment and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial in Belgium.

The inscription on the memorial reads

“To the glory of God and to the memory of 11,447 officers and men of the forces of the British Empire who fell fighting in the years 1914 to 1918 between the River Douve and the towns of Estaires and Furnes whose names are here recorded but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death”