Arthur Fletcher Ada

18/06/1883 — 23/04/1918
A brief biography

Ancestors


Rebecca Ada — 1770±
Thomas Ada ±1734 —
William Ada 1767 — 1837
William Ada 1807 — 1883
John Fletcher Ada 1840 — 1917
Arthur Fletcher Ada 1883 — 1918
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1918 Memorial Service for Arthur Ada
1918 Obituary of Arthur Ada
2002 Letter from Gillian Ada to Tim Rich ...

Arthur Fletcher Ada


Son of John Fletcher Ada and Martha East. .

Born in 1883, the forty-sixth year of the reign of Queen Victoria, and died aged thirty-four in the eighth year of the reign of King George V

A pillar of the community


Arthur Ada, the youngest of John and Martha Ada's five children, grew up in Maidenhead.
He was educated at Maidenhead Modern School. As a young man he succeeded to the Ada family Drapery business and worked at it in conjunction with his brother-in-law (Mr Leach) as partner.
His prowess as a swimmer was well known all around this  

The Zeebrugge Raid

The Zeebrugge Raid was a legend in the First World War, the first time that Our Boys had hit back at the Germans in Belgium and given them a bloody nose.
History has since been rewritten and we now know it was a complete failure, but fortunately our family did not know that at the time.
The authorities were at  


A stray shell


Arthur Ada was, like everyone on this mission, a volunteer. Only unmarried men could take part, and this in the fourth year of WW1 when so many had already been killed.
He had joined up in September 1916, undertaken many missions in the Mediterranean, and was now a stoker on the destroyer HMS Phoebe, one of three destroyers on this  

The Funeral

Arthur's mother asked for his body to be returned to Maidenhead for burial. There was a memorial address on the Sunday in the Baptist Church in Marlow Road where he had been the organist. The funeral took place the next afternoon, and was a public tribute to the quiet esteem in which the deceased was held by all classes. Most  


A lasting loss


Perhaps no-one suffered the loss more than his fiancée, Jessie Caroline Bloomfield, whose parents attended the funeral.
She was a music teacher, never married, and passed away in Devon at the age of 84 in 1987

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