Group portrait including 255 Lieutenant John Adams

Group portrait of junior officers and instructors of the 2nd Army Central School. Identified is (formerly 255) Lieutenant John Adams, 54th Battalion, front row second from the left. The group includes other allied officers and they are posed in front of the Abbaye Notre-Dame de Wisques. Lt Adams was later awarded a Military Cross and Bar, the MC in June 1918 for his work as an intelligence officer during the winter campaign on the Somme and his subsequent conduct in Belgium during 1917 on return to his battalion. It was reported that his "fearlessness, gallantry and devotion to duty" left a good impression on those with whom he came into contact. Adams was later awarded a Bar to his Military Cross for "conspicuous gallantry and brilliant leadership during the operations at Peronne" in 1918, where he was wounded while rushing a machine-gun post.