The John Chidzey Collection A Boer War D.C.M. group of five awarded to Captain J. P. Adams, Royal Artillery, who was decorated for his gallantry with 38th Battery, R.F.A. at Bakenkop in July 1900 and severely wounded at Quaggafontein in September 1901 Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (90344 Serjt. J. P. Adams, 38th Bty. R.F.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (90344 B.S. Major J. P. Adams, 38th Bty. R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (90344 B.S. Major J. P. Adams, R.F.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (2 Lieut. J. P. Adams); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (90344 B.S. Mjr. J. P. Adams, R.F.A.), contact marks, nearly very fine (5) £1200-1400 Footnote D.C.M. London Gazette 27 September 1901: ‘In recognition of services during operations in South Africa.’ John Percy Adams was born in April 1873 and enlisted in the Royal Artillery in May 1891. A Sergeant by the outbreak of hostilities in South Africa, he served in 38th Battery, R.F.A. in the operations in the Orange River Colony, including the action at Wittebergen, and in Cape Colony and the Transvaal. And most notable of these operations was his part in the action at Bakenkop on 3 July 1900 - when matters in the centre became grave, Captain G. A. Fitzgerald, who commanded 38th Battery’s second section of guns, sent for his limbers, but only one managed to get through to him, ‘largely owing to the exertions of a Sergeant named Adams’ (History of the War in South Africa refers). He was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901), and awarded the D.C.M. (AO 15/02 refers), which latter distinction he received from the G.O.C. South Africa. Severely wounded at Quaggafontein on 20 September 1901, Adams was advanced to Battery Sergeant-Major before the War’s end, and was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in in October 1909 (AO 270 refers). A Regimental Sergeant-Major in 42nd Brigade on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in July 1915 and served on the Home Establishment as an Adjutant of 2/4th Home Counties (Howitzer) Brigade, R.F.A. (T.F.) and Home Counties Ammunition Column, R.F.A., prior to being advanced to Temporary Captain. Relinquishing his commission in March 1919, Adams retired to Kent, where he died at Farnborough in April 1958, aged 85 years.
The John Chidzey Collection A Boer War D.C.M. group of five awarded to Captain J. P. Adams, Royal Artillery, who was decorated for his gallantry with 38th Battery, R.F.A. at Bakenkop in July 1900 and severely wounded at Quaggafontein in September 1901 Distinguished Conduct Medal, E.VII.R. (90344 Serjt. J. P. Adams, 38th Bty. R.F.A.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (90344 B.S. Major J. P. Adams, 38th Bty. R.F.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (90344 B.S. Major J. P. Adams, R.F.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (2 Lieut. J. P. Adams); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (90344 B.S. Mjr. J. P. Adams, R.F.A.), contact marks, nearly very fine (5) £1200-1400 Footnote D.C.M. London Gazette 27 September 1901: ‘In recognition of services during operations in South Africa.’ John Percy Adams was born in April 1873 and enlisted in the Royal Artillery in May 1891. A Sergeant by the outbreak of hostilities in South Africa, he served in 38th Battery, R.F.A. in the operations in the Orange River Colony, including the action at Wittebergen, and in Cape Colony and the Transvaal. And most notable of these operations was his part in the action at Bakenkop on 3 July 1900 - when matters in the centre became grave, Captain G. A. Fitzgerald, who commanded 38th Battery’s second section of guns, sent for his limbers, but only one managed to get through to him, ‘largely owing to the exertions of a Sergeant named Adams’ (History of the War in South Africa refers). He was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901), and awarded the D.C.M. (AO 15/02 refers), which latter distinction he received from the G.O.C. South Africa. Severely wounded at Quaggafontein on 20 September 1901, Adams was advanced to Battery Sergeant-Major before the War’s end, and was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in in October 1909 (AO 270 refers). A Regimental Sergeant-Major in 42nd Brigade on the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in July 1915 and served on the Home Establishment as an Adjutant of 2/4th Home Counties (Howitzer) Brigade, R.F.A. (T.F.) and Home Counties Ammunition Column, R.F.A., prior to being advanced to Temporary Captain. Relinquishing his commission in March 1919, Adams retired to Kent, where he died at Farnborough in April 1958, aged 85 years.
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