Regiment: Black Watch Regiment 8th Battalion

Brother of Mr. T. Adkins, of 57, Beaver Road., Beverley, Yorkshire. Herbert Adkins was born in 1889 at Rise and baptized on 19 Apr 1889 at All Saints Church, Rise. In 1901 he was living with his parents Thomas and Sarah Adkins at 94 Bogle Lane Beverley, one of 7 children. Herbert enlisted in the 9th Battalion the Royal Highlanders, rec […]

BORN COATBRIDGE, LANARKSHIRE 1894. SON OF CATHERINE & JOHN SYME. ENLISTED IN GLASGOW. EX. 8019, 2ND DRAGOONS. TRANSFERRED TO THE 8TH BLACK WATCH REGIMENT. KILLED ON 14/04/1917, AGED 23. LISTED AS A HULL CASUALTY, IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 12/05/1917. HULL ADDRESS UNTRACED. HIS PENSION WENT TO CATHERINE SYMES, AT 26 MAR STREET, ALLOA