Name:- Adam, Alexander Rollo
Nationality:- UK
Age :- 21
Rank:- Private
Number:- 15193
Medal:-
Service:- Army
Regiment / Ship:- 1st Bn., Scots Guards
Date of death:- Tuesday 9 October,1917
Cemetery / Memorial:- Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Area of Cemetery / Memorial:- Panel 10
Family information:-
Son of James and Jessie Ann Adam - The Laurels, Perth Road, Blairgowrie (this is now a guest house on the corner of Perth Road and Golf Course Road)
1901 Census
Loaning, Clunie, Perthshire
James Adam, head, 49, farmer, b. Lintrathen, Forfarshire
Jessie A Adam, wife, 46, b. Lintrathen, Forfarshire
Annie E R Adam, daughter, 13, scholar, b. Lintrathen, Forfarshire
William G Adam, son, 9, scholar, b. Lintrathen, Forfarshire
Alexander R Adam, son, 5, b. Airlie, Forfarshire
John H Adam, son, 2, b. Clunie
Isabella C Robertson, servant, 14, general domestic servant, b. Alyth, Perthshire
Extra information:-
Alexander Rollo Adam was born on 13th February, 1896, and left Blairgowrie High School on 6th September, 1912. At the time of the 1903 School Register, the family were living at "Loaning", Clunie, Blairgowrie. "Loaning" is situated about half a mile to the north of Loch of Clunie off the A923 west of Blairgowrie.