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PRIVATE JOHN ROBERT ADAMS
was born in Ohio on September 29, 1892. When he registered for the draft
in Camden in June of 1917 he was living at 614 Erie Street in North Camden,
where he worked as a motor vehicle clerk at the Bell Telephone Company
garage at 11th and Cambria Street in Philadelphia PA.
According to the book
Camden County in the Great War, Private Roberts 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 Roberts 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. |
