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2nd.Lt. Rowland Woosley Adams
British Army
Rowland Adams was wounded on 31st July 1917 at Wambeke. He was picked up on 1st August, taken to Lump Farm Advanced Field Dressing Station and onward to 53 Casualty Clearing Station at Bailleul by about midnight. An operation was carried out on 2nd August before Rowland was moved to No 20 General hospital. A bullet was subsequently removed on 4th August.
He was returned to England in September and on 2nd August 1918, he was discharged from the army by a medical board, surviving until 4th September 1921 when he died at Turf Hotel, outside Exeter.