Robert Bellew Adams
Robert Bellew Adams | |
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Edward Donald Bellew VC (second cousin) |
Career
Robert Bellew Adams, the son of an officer of the
In 1897 the Guides took part in the
During the fighting at Nawa Kili, in Upper Swat, on the 17th August, 1897, Lieutenant-Colonel R.B. Adams proceeded with Lieutenants H.L.S. MacLean and Viscount Fincastle, and five men of the Guides, under a very heavy and close fire, to the rescue of Lieutenant R.T. Greaves, Lancashire Fusiliers, who was lying disabled by a bullet wound and surrounded by the enemy's swordsmen. In bringing him under cover he (Lieutenant Greaves) was struck by a bullet and killed—Lieutenant MacLean was mortally wounded—whilst the horses of Lieutenant-Colonel Adams and Lieutenant Viscount Fincastle were shot, as well as two troop horses.
— London Gazette, 9 November 1897[7]
Lieutenant Greaves was acting as war correspondent for The Times of India. Viscount Fincastle was also acting as a war correspondent, for The Times. A fuller account is given by Winston Churchill in The Story of the Malakand Field Force.[8]
Adams and Fincastle were awarded the Victoria Cross (VC). At that time the VC was not awarded posthumously, and the London Gazette noted "Lieutenant Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean, Indian Staff Corps, on account of his gallant conduct as recorded above, would have been recommended to Her Majesty for the Victoria Cross had he survived." MacLean was awarded a posthumous VC in 1907 after the policy had been changed.[9]
During the same campaign Adams was
Adams died in retirement at Inverness in 1928 aged 71. After cremation in Maryhill, Glasgow, his ashes were buried at Tomnahuich Cemetery, Inverness.[13]
Family
Adams was unmarried. He was the
References
- ^ "No. 24362". The London Gazette. 12 September 1876. p. 4962.
- ^ "No. 24625". The London Gazette. 17 September 1878. p. 5174.
- ^ "No. 24905". The London Gazette. 23 November 1880. p. 5939.
- ^ "No. 25758". The London Gazette. 15 November 1887. p. 6067.
- ^ "No. 26795". The London Gazette. 17 November 1896. p. 6275.
- ^ "No. 26797". The London Gazette. 24 November 1896. p. 6507.
- ^ "No. 26908". The London Gazette. 9 November 1897. p. 6143.
- ^ Churchill, W.S., The Story of the Malakand Field Force - An Episode of the Frontier War, reprinted by Arc Manor, 2008, pages 81-82
- ^ "No. 27986". The London Gazette. 15 January 1907. p. 325.
- ^ "No. 27359". The London Gazette. 27 September 1901. p. 6295.
- ^ "No. 27498". The London Gazette. 25 November 1902. p. 7941.
- ^ "No. 28617". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 1912. p. 4297.
- ^ Burial location of Robert Adams Inverness
- ADAMS, Maj.-Gen. Sir Robert Bellew, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 4 November 2012
- Major-General Sir R.B. Adams, V.C. (obituary), The Times, London, 14 February 1928, page 19
- Monuments to Courage(David Harvey, 1999)
- The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)
- Scotland's Forgotten Valour (Graham Ross, 1995)
External links
- Burial location of Robert Adams Inverness
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