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“If you think, have a kindly thought, If you speak, speak generously, Of those who as heroes fought And died to keep you free”
Set up by the Black Country Society. Our aim is to highlight local men who died in the Great War and how they have been commemorated on war memorials. Its scope covers the whole of the present Dudley Municipal Borough and therefore includes the places which have come within its bounds since 1914.
There are over fifty memorials and the number of names exceeds three thousand. Research on the names has been extensive but inevitably errors and omissions occur. We would like to hear about them concentrated on life and work before 1914, involvement in military campaigns and where each man is buried or commemorated.
Ezra Adams was the son of Joseph and Emily Adams of 14 Birmingham Road, Blackheath, and attended Halesowen Grammar School. He enlisted in the Worcester Territorials and joined the 2/8th Battalion, which fought on the Somme in 1916 and in the Third Battle of Ypres during 1917. In March 1918 it was facing the Hindenburg Line and was driven back during the enemy's fearsome Spring offensive. He was promoted Corporal and took part in the Advance to Victory from July 1918. He was killed in action near Estaires on the road to Armentieres and is buried in the cemetery at Laventie (IV F 8). He was 23 years of age and his name is commemorated on the Blackheath, Halesowen and The Earls School Memorials.
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