Sidney Adams

Sidney Clarke Adams (17 August 1904 – 24 March 1945) was an English first-class cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler who played first-class cricket for Northamptonshire. He was born in Northampton and died near Hamminkeln, Germany. Adams' first-class career lasted from 1926 and 1932. His only first-class fifty, a knock of 87, came against Dublin University in a match in which he recorded his best bowling figures of 6 for 32 and took wickets with the first two balls he bowled in first-class cricket. The victim of his first delivery was the playwright Samuel Beckett.[1][2]

Gunner Adams died on 24 March 1945 serving with the 53rd (Worcestershire Yeomanry) Air Landing Light Regiment, Royal Artillery in Germany. He is buried at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery.[3]