Sunday 1 November, 1914
by John Adams
[From personal note]
Nov 1914
At Victoria Barracks, Belfast
Friday 25 December, 1914
by John Adams
Spend Xmas Day loading Hay for Horses in France at Belfast Docks.
From personal notes by John Adams
Friday 5 February, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes]
Friday
Entrained to Lurgan. Portadown (had mid day meal). Loughgall Road to Red Lion, Drimond [Diamond?], over Cock Hill to Birches (3). Stayed overnight with Widow showed boxes of L.O.L. and R.B.P. which sat there.
Saturday 6 February, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes]
Saturday
To Loughgall via Church hill*. Stayed in Rock Tavern (with Band) over week end.
*Church Hill – home of the Verner family, site now in Peatlands Country Park.
**Rock Tavern in Loughgall
Sunday 7 February, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes]
Sunday
Service in Loughgall Parish Church
Tuesday 9 February, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes]
Monday + Tuesday
Armagh City
Wednesday 10 February, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes]
Wednesday
Afternoon marched to Richhill via Hamiltonsbawn. Stayed in Home of Wm. McNally.
[This is what Hamiltonsbawn looked like then. Strange to think that John Adams will have marched past two houses he later lived in after he moved to Hamiltonsbawn in 1926. I wonder if he ever thought about that route march when he was marching along the main street later in life?]
Thursday 11 February, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes]
Thursday
From Richhill via Portadown Road, via Armagh, Killylea to Tynan Village. Stayed at the Home of Robert Sleater.
Friday 12 February, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes]
Friday
From Tynan via Keady to N.T. [Newtown] Hamilton. Stayed at the Home of Messrs Fallow.
Saturday 13 February, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes]
Saturday
Main N.T.H [Newtown Hamilton] Road via Belleek to Bessbrook. Week end at Home.
Sunday 14 February, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes]
Sunday
Service in Bessbrook Church
Monday 15 February, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes]
Monday
From Bessbrook to Poyntzpass via Doctor’s Hill and Drumbanagher Castle. Stayed at home of J.B. Small
Tuesday 16 February, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes]
Tuesday
From Poyntzpass to Markethill via Tyrone Ditches and Glenanne, stayed Rev. Moore’s Manse.
Wednesday 17 February, 1915
by John Adams
From personal notes
Wednesday
From Markethill to Tandragee, via Clare, Laurelvale, stayed at Main Street at home of some Dressmakers
Thursday 18 February, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes]
Entrained at Portadown for Belfast
Friday 5 March, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes]
Took part in Recruiting March through County Monaghan, terminating at Castleblayney, lasting 1 week.
Saturday 8 May, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes]
Inspection at Malone at Major General Sir Hugh McCalmont K.C.B. followed by a March through the City.
Monday 28 June, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes – date not specific, June 1915]
Promoted Lance Corporal
Went with Advance Party to Seaforde, Sussex, England
Thursday 30 September, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes]
Inspected to [sic] King George V at Aldershot
Monday 4 October, 1915
by John Adams
Landed in France
[From personal note]
Monday 4 October, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes]
Left Burdon Camp for France. Landed at Le Havre
Monday 1 November, 1915
by John Adams
[From personal notes. date not specific – simply marked as Nov]
In Trenches Heburterne Sector attached to Gloster [sic] Regt for Instructions
Wednesday 1 May, 1918
by John Adams
[From a personal note]
On 1st May 1918 Brig Gen Griffith handed over 108 Brigade to Brig Gen Vaughan DSO
Monday 17 February, 1919
by John Adams
Discharged from Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast.
From personal notes. Presumably demobbed very soon afterwards.