Revisions to the War Dead on the memorial, after the 1911 census

Under Draper:

Note: Rev Wm H. Draper had lost a daughter, Angela Lucy in February 1903, his second wife, Emilie Augusta on 12 August 1913 and three of his sons in the war. He, the youngest son, John (aged 15 in 1911) and two daughters, Mary Christabel Draper (19 in 1911) (bur Adel Churchyard) & Hester M (14 in 1911 census) the wife of Sir Thomas Armstrong, Principal of the Royal College of Music remained. It is known that for a short time during the war Rev. Draper moved out of the Rectory which he let to a young army officer a brother to Alan Don, at one time Dean of Westminster, to live in the coachman’s room above the entrance hall to the Old Stables. In 1920 the Rev Draper left Adel to take up a position as Master of Temple Church, London (12^th Century church of the Knights Templar as featured in the Da Vinci Code, book and film). This was near to where his daughter lived. He met and then married one of her friends and had a further son.

A grandson, Lord Armstrong, was Chancellor of Hull University and, in 2007, secretary to the Cabinet. A Miss Armstrong recently visited Adel Church.

Wilfred STEAD

As rifleman 39538, 1/7^th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own) he died on 14^th April 1918 aged 20 in Gembloux, Belgium as a Prisoner of War. He is buried in the St. Symphorien Military Cemetery, Belgium.

He was born in Adel, the 4^th of 6 children – with an elder sister and four brothers, to Charles and Hannah Maria Stead of Belle Vue Cottage, Adel, where his father was a gardener.