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WHITLEY BAY

Adams, G., Captain RFC., 1914-18 (1968)

Photo: Angela Conroy

In Whitley Bay Cemetery is a headstone which reads:

Joseph Dixon Clark
Artist
25th May 1849 – 20th December 1945
And his daughter
Laura Annie Adams
Artist
28th May 1885 – 25th November 1957
And her husband
Gladstone Adams
Captain, Royal Flying Corps
Photographer and Inventor
16th May 1880 – 26th July 1966

Angela Conroy states that Gladstone Adams took many of the photos of Whitley Bay service men who fought in WW1 and was quite a notable person in this area.

If you know more about this person, please send the details to janet@newmp.org.uk