Claro Times - 6th January 1915
The following letter has been received by Mr
Thursfield, secretary of the Harrogate YMCA :
7th Clearing Hospital
British Expeditionary Force
December 20th, 1914
Dear Mr Thursfield, I am writing a line to wish you
and all my old YMCA friends a merry Christmas and a happy new year,
not forgetting the boys who, I see by the papers, spend many happy
hours at the YMCA whilst waiting their turn to come out and do their
little bit for the old country. We are kept fairly busy; we were up
all last night getting about 300 wounded through, loading up and
sending off two ambulance trains to the base.
I wrote Mr Reddin and gave him the score of a
football match we played. I made a mistake; we won 7-3, not 6-3. in
the replay on Wednesday we won 4-2. we played two 45's instead of
two 35's, as in the last ten minutes we had them beaten, and scored
three goals. We played 45's in the first match. We should have
played Rugby yesterday, but had no time, all hands working full
speed all day and most of the night.
I have not run across Billy Bell, although I have
been in places where I see he has been by his letters. I should like
to run across him; I may some day. Tolley, one of our Harrogate men,
met a man named Calvert the other day, an Army Service Corps man
from Harrogate. Lieutenant Malim, of Harrogate, also met the same
man in a photographer's here. Jackson (who is a real worker),
myself, and the other Harrogate boys are keeping well. We trust you
are the same; also all the YMCA boys. Please give them my kindest
regards, with same to yourself, I remain, yours sincerely,
Alec W Adams
Harrogate Herald - 20th January 1915
W H Breare letter
I have just had Sergeant Adams, of the 7th
Clearing Hospital, in to see me. He has had a few hours leave and
returns tomorrow.
Harrogate herald - 20th January 1915
The following is a list of members of the Harrogate
Cricket Club who have joined some branch of His Majesty's Forces, as
referred to by Mr Idle at the last meeting of the Yorkshire Cricket
Council :
A A Alderson, R Alderson, G Alderson, Lieutenant H E
Appleyard, Lieutenant O J Addyman, A W Adams, H Blackburn, J
Butterworth, J Brassington, B E Brown, H Bush, P J Barker, Dr A L
Bastable, Captain A B Boyd-Carpenter, O Bastable, C Chippindale, W
Crust, D H Drake, G L Dimmock, Lieutenant W H Brennan, A G Fraser, E
H Gomersall, T W Green, A Gofton, W F Gibson, S Holmes, J Houfe, Rev
D Hoole, S A Harrison, W Langley, Lieutenant W E L Lapham, Major W F
Leader, G H Lamb, C A Mantle, Hon. R Captain Moreton, K L Newstead,
Lieutenant R G Raworth, H W Rymer, S Royce, T W L Strother, J M
Strother, Captain F H Shaw, G B Simpson, Alex Stott, A A Thomson, G
E Topham, W Voakes, Hon E Major Wood, Military Police, K
Wesley-Smith.
Total of 51, of which 8 are from the 1st XI
Harrogate herald - 5th December 1917
W H Breare letter
Sergeant A W Adams, formerly of 7 Clearing
Hospital, is at headquarters in France when on duty. At present he
is at home on 14 days' leave, and looking well. Bombardier Foster is
also at the same headquarters, and he too is fit. I think Foster
comes from Birstwith. With Sergeant Adams came his brother, Private
F A Adams, Royal Army Medical Corps, who is an Army optician.
His home is in Norwich, but he got special leave to come to see his
brother. Both the Adams' are tall and shapely; but though Private
Adams, who by the way, is a civilian and has had no Army
training, his job not requiring it, as he stands beside his brother
seems shorter, in reality his length is greater. This shows how Army
training makes a man erect and accounts for the statements we so
often hear that men, who have passed the growing age, have put on an
inch or two in height.
Harrogate Herald - 9th January 1918
The following are men who have sent us the Army
post-card briefly stating that they are well and have received
papers and parcels, or whose letters contain views that have
repeatedly been expressed by other correspondents, but show their
friends that they are all right
Alec W Adams
