The death occurred at the Hospital on Tuesday night of Private J. J. Adam, who was admitted a week ago on disembarking from a hospital ship. The remains will be buried with military honours on Saturday, the cortege leaving the residence of his father (Barr street, Mornington) in the afternoon. Private Adam went away with the Canterbury Infantry. -Otago Daily Times, 17/5/1917.
The remains of Private J. J. Adam, who died about a week after his return to the dominion, were accorded, an impressive military funeral on Saturday afternoon. There was a parade of Territorials, in charge of Major Fleming and Captain Myers, and squads of Coast Defence and Engineers were also present. The "Dead March in Saul" was played by the Band of the Fourth Regiment. The cortege proceeded from Private Adam's home in Mornington to the Anderson Bay Cemetery, where the burial service was conduced. by Chaplain-captain Small. The firing party was provided by returned soldiers. -Otago Daily Times, 21/5/1917.
John Adams reached Britain from Egypt in 1916, and spent some months in the trenches of France before he was hospitalised with bronchitis, later diagnosed as tuberculosis. He was sent home on the "Maheno" the following March and died in Dunedin.
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