2nd Lieutenant Percy Horace Adams was the son of Alfred and Amelia Adams.  He lived in Sutton, Surrey.   He enlisted in London and first joined the Artists Rifles in September 1916 and then transferred to the Sherwood Foresters as a Private with number 8308.  Percy was drafted to the 2nd Officers Cadet Battalion, Queens College, Cambridge.   

He became a 2nd Lieutenant with the 4th Battalion on the 30th of May 1917 before being posted to the 2nd Battalion on the 18th of September 1917 where he was gassed and sent back to England to recover.   

On returning to the front on the 2nd of September 1918 he was posted to the 1st Battalion and it was with them he was sadly Killed in Action, at Oppy Wood, when leading a raid on the enemy trenches on the 3rd of October 1918.  He was age 20 years.   

He is buried at Roclincourt Military Cemetery, VI.E.12. France.  He is commemorated on the Sutton War Memorial. The personal inscription on his grave reads ‘FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH’.