Dennis Frank Adcock

A Private with 6th Bn. Dennis died on 26th of January 1942 at the age of 26. 

Dennis was born at Norwich on 5 April 1915, a son of Frank Spencer Adcock and of May Mildred Adcock. In 1921 his family lived at the Police Station, East Dereham, where is father was a Police Constable. By 1939 they were living at Docking, Norfolk, where is father was the licensee of The Railway public house and Dennis worked as a grocer's assistant. Later his parents lived at 39 Stanford Street. 

In late 1939 the 6th Battalion was stationed at Sheringham and in spring 1940 guarded the coast from Sheringham to Overstrand. In August 1940 the Battalion moved to Holt and later in the year they moved to Weybourne, and then Swaffham.

The 6th Battalion was part of the 18th (East Anglian) Division and in January 1941 the Division moved to Scotland until April when they moved to Hartford and in August to Knowsley Park, Lancashire.

In October the Division received orders that they were to go overseas and the 6th Battalion embarked on the S.S. Duchess of Atholl, at Gourouk, and sailed for Halifax, Nova Scotia, on 27 October 1941. The Battalion, being part of the 53rd Brigade, was transferred to S.S. Mount Vernon and sailed for Trinidad and then Cape Town, arriving on 9 December 1941 and three days shore leave was granted.

On 13 December 1941 they sailed for Bombay but orders came redirecting them to Mombassa and then Singapore, where they disembarked on 13 January 1942. From 16 January they were involved in the battle to save Malaya. 

Dennis was reported missing at Singapore on 15 February 1942 but the official casualty list 1980, of 7 February 1946, recorded that he was presumed to have been killed in action on 26-27 January 1942.