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This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to accept cookies. If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation.     Site Home     Great War Home     Search     Add Stories & Photos     Library     Help & FAQs  Features     Allied Army     Day by Day     RFC & RAF     Prisoners of War     War at Sea     Training for War     The Battles     Those Who Served     Hospitals     Civilian Service     Women at War     The War Effort     Central Powers Army     Central Powers Navy     Imperial Air Service     Library     World War Two  Submissions     Add Stories & Photos     Time Capsule  Information     Help & FAQs     Glossary     Our Facebook Page     Volunteering     News     Events     Contact us     Great War Books     About Advertisements World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment		216603 Mjr. St.John Adcock British Army 3rd Btn. Leinster Regiment from:Blackrock, Co. Dublin (d.9th May 1915) Major St John Adcock served with the 3rd Battalion, the Leinster Regiment and was attached to the 1st Battalion the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment He was killed in action age 45 on the 9th May 1915 at the Battle of Aubers Ridge. He is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. He was the son of Mrs. S. C. Adcock and St. John Adcock, of "Loughnavale," Strand Rd., Merrion, Co. Dublin; husband of Ethel Maud Adcock, of 7, Waltham Terrace, Blackrock, Co. Dublin. He had previously served in the Anglo-Boer War. S Flynn Add to this record.    Additional Information: St John Adcock married Ethel Maud Acklom in 1809 and had a daughter, Irene Elinor Maud St.John Adcock, born November 1915, six months after he was killed in action while leading his men at Rue du Bois, Richebourg, St. Vaast. His body was never found. He was born 24 May 1867 and initially joined the Longford Horse in 1901 before proceeding to South Africa. St John was one of 9 children of St John Adcock and Susan Charlotte Kennedy (who married in Dundald, Co Louth, Ireland) and an elder brother, Robert James Adcock was a Captain in the Royal Irish Riffles (making his will in Beggars Bush Barracks). George Thompson Reply
He was the son of Susan Charlotte Adcock (nee Kennedy, daughter of James Kennedy and Margaret Hill, of Dundalk, Ireland) and St John Adcock, son of Joseph Adcock and Mary Ann Mayn. George Thompson Reply

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