239804 Pte. Adam John Carswell Nelson British Army 5th (City of Glasgow) Battalion Highland Light Infantry from:Glengarnock, Ayshire (d.18th January 1945) Adam Nelson was the 5th son of Adam & Ellen Nelson who had 8 children, their eldest son was James Douglas Nelson born in Glengarnock in 1908. James Nelson married Bertha Beadle in June 1934 in Largs. Sadly James passed away on 27th February 1943 due to ill health.
His wife Bertha lived in Dalmuir, Clydebank with her 4 daughters until her death in January 1999. Their youngest daughter Sarah Douglas Nelson born 23rd October 1943 married my father, Alexander Kidd Cummings, born 30th March 1940 in Clydebank on 11th November 1960 in Clydebank.
Adam was born in 1917 and killed at age 27 on 18th of January 1945, whilst serving with his unit near Sittard Nederland's. He is buried in the Sittard War Cemetery in the Netherlands.
Sadly, with his loss his parents Adam & Ellen Nelson lost 2 children in little over a year.
Neither my Grandfather Nelson (James)& his Brother lived to see the end of the war.
On my father, Alexander Kidd Cummings's side of the family, his father, Alexander Kidd Cummings (Snr), was employed by Singer's (Manufacturing munitions & war supplies) in Clydebank & served in the Home Guard during the War, running along the factory roofs sweeping off incendiary bombs during the Clydebank Blitz with a broom. His elder brother, Sergeant Robert Allison Cummings, served in the Highland Regiment from 1932 to 1946 was a survivor of the Dunkirk Evacuation on 1st June 1940.
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