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In 1917, Adamson caught trench fever and spent a week in hospital. Later he was back in hospital to recover from mustard gas. He was forced to wear a monocle to supplement his good eye, and even with that had difficulty moving around the trenches at night. He had to resign. He wrote to his wife "The
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Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry at Passchendaele, November 1917. Colonel Agar Adamson, the CO of the PPCLI, is likely in the center, with the officer on the right being Lieutenant Colonel Charles James Townshend Stewart, the unit's CO in
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brigadier was very nice about it. Whoever is in command should be full of health and youth." Adamson was 52 when he resigned his command. The stated reason was his wife's poor health, but the real reason was his own nervous exhaustion.
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Adamson was unable to obtain a post as a regular officer in a
British regiment after the war. He also failed in an attempt at farming, and in 1903, the Adamsons returned to Canada. In 1904, Grove Farm in
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Agar
Stewart Allan Masterton Adamson was born in Ottawa on 25 December 1865. He was the second and last son of James Adamson and Mary Julia Derbishire. He came from a well-connected
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Adamson's wife, Mabel, had been helping in London and with civilian refugees behind the lines in
Belgium when she became ill. She soon recovered, but Adamson now became affected by
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From Queenston to Kingston: The Hidden Heritage of Lake Ontario's Shoreline
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Gwyn, Sandra (2005). "ADAMSON, AGAR STEWART ALLAN MASTERTON".
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who came to Canada in 1840 and was chaplain to the Governor,
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The Canadian Experience of the Great War: A Guide to Memoirs
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Intrepid Warriors: Perspectives on Canadian Military Leaders
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from 1916 to 1918. He died after an airplane crash in the
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His marriage broke down, although there was no divorce.
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329:William Agar Adamson
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107:Port Credit, Ontario
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601:Agar Rodney Adamson
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199:Lieutenant-Colonel
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319:Early years
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