"We do not want to be remembered as heroes, we only ask to be remembered for what we done....that's all"
"I regard it as a privilege to fight for all those things that make life worth living - freedom, honour and fair play"

90537 FO Pilot British 611 and 41 Squadrons Born in Banbury on May 6 1913, Adams was educated at Liskeard High School, Wallasey. He passed the entrance examination for Cambridge University but decided to do an apprenticeship in the light leather industry. He finished his time at a Northampton tannery and then took a job with the firm there. Adams joined the F2 Reserve of Pilots on April 14 1936 at 7 E&RFTS, Desford,becoming a Sergeant u/t Pilot the next day. The course required nine weeks full-time training in the first six months on Tiger Moths and two weeks in the second six months on Harts, still at Desford. No uniform was given. When the RAFVR was formed, Adams went into it, as a Sergeant-Pilot, having qualified after his Hart training. The RAFVR weekends were spent at Meir, Staffordshire. In 1938 Adams applied to join 610 Squadron, AuxAF but there were no vacancies so he applied to 611 Squadron at Speke in July 1938 and was accepted. He was commissioned and given £60 uniform allowance to spend at Gieves, Liverpool. The Squadron went to camp at Duxford on August 13 1939 and was mobilised on to a war footing on the 24th. Over Dunkirk on June 2 1940 Adams destroyed a Ju 87 and probably a Bf 109. Flying from Tern Hill on July 22, he made a forced landing on the beach at Colwyn Bay, in Spitfire N3062. The aircraft was towed on to the promenade by the Army to escape the incoming tide. On September 21 Adams was sent up to investigate an unidentified aircraft over Liverpool and sighted a Do 215 of 2(F)/121 on photo-reconnaissance. He climbed to intercept and tried to turn the aircraft back to Hooton Park. The German pilot did not comply and Adams shot the aircraft down at Dolgelly Merionethshire. It crash-landed at Trasfynydd. One crew-member was killed and the other three captured, wounded. Adams joined 41 Squadron at Hornchurch on September 29 and three days later shared in destroying a Bf 109. On October 7 he was shot down by return fire from a Do 17 and baled out of Spitfire N3267, landing at Douglas Farm, Pestling. He was posted away from 41 in April 1941. Adams was in the RAF until 1945, when he was released as a Squadron Leader. He later went to live in South Africa and died there in 1995. APO (AuxAF) 11.10.38, PO 26.08.39, FO 03.09.40, FL 03.09.41, SL 01.07.44