As Pilot Officer 41543 in the RAF he was killed in action on 25^th July 1940, aged 23.  He had taken his Hurricane up over Oakridge, Gloucester to intercept a German bomber on a bombing raid.

These notes are based on a walk organised by the Adel History Group on 22^nd July 2008 from the Old Stables.

Reference is made to the Adel Neighbourhood Design Statement (ANDS) details of which can be obtained elsewhere on this website

These notes are based on the walk that Val Crompton did for the May 2008 meeting of the Adel History Group.  If material has previously been posted to the Adel Association website it is not repeated - reference is made to it.

ADEL CHURCHYARD - WORLD WAR 11

Research by Donna Shoesmith-Evans, Val Crompton, Adrian Budge, John Larder and Ann Lightman.

The 1917 deaths are covered in more detail in the article on that year.

As recorded in the church

Adel, north of Leeds, may be the most extensive Roman site in the modern county of West Yorkshire. The first description of its extent and nature was given by Ralph Thoresby, the Leeds historian and antiquary.

In 1915 it comes under Barkston Ash, as Adel cum Eccup Polling District in the Otley Electoral Division.

The 1915 electoral register (as previous) had a property qualification - enabling people who lived elsewhere to be on the register e.g.