- Norman Vere Maxwell Adams was born in july 1918 in Boroughmuirhead
district, Edinburgh City. He was the eldest a son of Dr. Daniel Vere
Maxwell Adams (1875-1953) and Edith Anne Maxwell Adams (nee Williams).
He had one brother.
- Adams was educated at Cargilfield prep school, Fettes College and
Edinburgh University. He completed two years as a medical
student.
- Adams married Hilda Mary Cook of Hunstanton, Norfolk in 1942. They
had one son.
- On 27 april 1940 Adams was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of
Artillery. He served with the Lanarkshire Yeomanry. On 25 march 1942 he
transferred to the Glider Pilot Regiment, where he served with No.13
Flight, D Squadron.
- Adams was wounded on Sicily.
- In september 1944 Adams was a section commander of D Squadron. He
was pilot of a horsa glider (chalknumber 457). On 17 september 1944 he
should have landed near Wolfheze with the 1st lift. But because of some
reason he didn't.
- On 18 september 1944 he flew to Arnhem on the 2nd lift. He left
from Keevil airfield. Adams' horsa crashlanded in the North Sea and
Adams drowned. The rest of the people inside the horsa were saved.
- Adams
has no known grave. His name is on panel 8 of the Groesbeek Memorial,
which commemorates by name more than 1000 soldiers who died during te
campaign in north-west Europe between the time of crossing the Seine at
the end of August 1944 and the end of the war in Europe, and whose
graves are not known.
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