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PRIVATE JOHN ROBERT ADAMS
was born in Canton, Ohio on September 29, 1892. When he registered for the draft
in Camden, New Jersey in June of 1917 he was living at 614
Erie
Street in North Camden.
John R. Adams worked as a motor vehicle clerk at the Bell Telephone Company
garage at 11th and Cambria Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was
inducted into the United States Army on April 26, 1918 at Camden.
According to the book
Camden County in the Great War, Private Adams was a member of the 303rd Trench Mortar
battery,
78th Infantry Division, and was drafted and sent to Camp Dix on April
25, 1918. His unit sailed for overseas three weeks later. Private Adams died of
pneumonia
on November 2, 1918 in a
hospital in France. He was 26
years old, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Adams, a tool repairer
at the Esterbrook Pen factory, of 614
Erie
Street, Camden NJ.
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