First World War British Victory Medal - Private James Adams, 1st Bn. Cameron Highlanders
Victory Medal - S-33099 PTE. J. ADAMS. CAMERONS.
Private James Adams (S/33099) served with the 1st Battalion, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, a regular battalion that spent the entire First World War on the Western Front. The battalion fought continuously from 1914 to 1918, taking part in some of the hardest actions of the war including the defence of the Ypres Salient, the Somme, Arras, Passchendaele, and the final advance of 1918.
Men of the 1st Camerons were heavily engaged throughout 1917–18, suffering repeated casualties during the German Spring Offensive and the Allied counter-offensives that followed. Adams appears on the battalion’s medal roll compiled at Perth in 1920, confirming his entitlement to the British War Medal and Victory Medal for service in France and Flanders.
Although no surviving service papers remain for him, his presence on the roll places him among the late-war drafts who reinforced the battalion after its heavy fighting in 1916–17. The 1st Camerons remained in the line almost continuously until the Armistice.
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