Memorial Plaque (Charles John Norman Adams) with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in card...

Memorial Plaque (Charles John Norman Adams) with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in card envelope, nearly extremely fine £80-£100 --- Charles John Norman Adams was born at Rosario de Santa Fe in the Argentine Republic on 7 January 1889, the younger son of the Reverend George Alophus Samuel Adams, and was educated at King's School, Canterbury, where he was Captain of School, and three years in both the 1st XV and the Cricket 1st XI; and then at St. John’s College, Oxford. He joined the Oxford University Officer Training Corps upon matriculation, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant on the Unattached List for the Territorial Army on 17 December 1912. Appointed an Assistant Master at Marlborough College, he was promoted Lieutenant in the Officer Training Corps on 29 May 1916. Adams was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards on 20 April 1918, ands served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 22 September 1918, attached to No. 2 Company. On 4 November 1918, the 2nd Battalion of the Grenadier Guards was ordered to advance in support of the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards for an attack on the line of the Fresnay- Wargnies- Le Petit road then to pass through them and secure a second objective some 2,000 yards beyond. No 2 Company was in support of Nos. 3 and 4 Companies who were in the vanguard of the Grenadier's advance. The attack began at 7.30 a.m. Earlier rain had stopped, but a very heavy mist hung over the ground cutting visibility to no more than 200 yards. As the leading companies passed over the high ground south west of Wargnies Le Petit the mist suddenly lifted and they came under devastating machine gun fire from the north and they suffered heavy casualties. They took their objectives and consolidated their position during the afternoon with the 1st Battalion Irish Guards passing through their positions at 6.30pm to continue the advance. Adams was wounded while leading his platoon in this attack and was evacuated to No 8 General Hospital in Rouen. He died of his wounds on 14 November 1918, and is buried in St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen.