Charles Kendrick Adams Jr. was born in Moundsville on August 3, 1917, to Charles Kendrick and Eliza Jane Totten Adams. He attended Moundsville Central before the family moved to Huntington, where they were living in 1930.
After World War II broke out, Charles Adams volunteered for the American Field Service, and he served as an ambulance driver with CM 47, assigned to the Central Mediterranean area. Adams was taken ill and died aboard a hospital ship on January 14, 1944. He was buried at the Cambridge American Cemetery in Cambridge, England, in Plot G Row 1 Grave 161.
Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial Courtesy American Battle Monuments Commission
Patricia Richards McClure contributed to this biography.
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