Shields Gazette Wednesday 11/10/1916
Prior to the war, he was a motorman on the Shields tramcars, and resided with his parents at 5 Wadham Terrace, Tyne Dock. His mother has received the following letter of sympathy from the officer of her son's company : - "It is with feelings of deep regret that I have to inform you of the death in action of your son, Adelbert Yare. He was, as you are probably aware, a stretcher-bearer, and on the night of the 24th August, accompanied his company to the trenches, where they were employed on digging. A party of infantry were out in front of us, and one of them got hit by a machine gun bullet. Not withstanding the heavy machine gun fire which was being directed on this spot, your son immediately went out to succour the wounded man, and it was while employed on this duty that he was himself struck and killed by fire from a hostile machine gun. There is little I can say that can assuage the grief you must feel. All one can write seems so commonplace in the presence of death, but your sorrow will, I am sure, always be lightened by the memory of his heroic end.
One's thoughts instantly revert to that noble memory-"Greater love hath no man than this, that he gives his life for his friend."
Believe me, yours faithfully, Clive Watts (Second Lieutenant.)"
Source : - Shields Gazette Wednesday 11/10/1916.
In the Battalion War Diary Private A. Yare has a service number of 54. (See page 247.)
Addlebert Yare is remembered at South Shields on S86.43 and S86.45 and at Newcastle in NUT256 page 230 and 247.
