Fragments of the First AIF - Pte Frederick Reginald Adams

Reg Adams was a young man from Alphington in Melbourne, Vic, who enlisted with his brother Lindsay. But on their way to the war, their troopship was torpedoed and disabled by an enemy submarine. Reg wrote home to tell all about his experiences being evacuated from HMAT Southland - but what happened to Lin?

Episode 10: 54 Pte Frederick Reginald Adams, 6th Field Ambulance

Sinking of the Southland, by Fred Leist

Photograph of Reg Adams courtesy of Phillip Adams

Sources:

• Death notice (Bessie Adams), The Argus, 23 October 1895, p.1

• Roll of Honour circular, Lindsay Thomas Adams

• ‘Torpedoed: Transport in Aegean Sea,’ The Sun, 12 November 1915, p.5

• ‘Letters from the Front,’ Heidelberg News & Greensborough & Diamond Creek Chronicle, 11 December 1915, p.3

• ‘The Southland Disaster,’ Koroit Sentinel & Tower Hill Advocate, 27 November 1915, p.2

• ‘Letters from the Front,’ Heidelberg News & Greensborough & Diamond Creek Chronicle, 11 December 1915, p.3