Robert Bellew Adams (VC, KCB) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

He was 41 years old, and a Bt/Lieutenant Colonel in the Staff Corps and Corps of Guides , Indian Army during the Tirah Campaign, India when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

On 11 August 1897 at Nawa Kili , Upper Swat, India, Lieutenant Colonel Adams, with two other officers (Viscount, Alexander Edward Murray Fincastle and Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean) and five men of the Guides, went under a heavy and close fire, to the rescue of a lieutenant of the Lancashire Fusiliers who was lying disabled by a bullet wound and surrounded by enemy swordsmen. While the wounded officer was being brought under cover he was unfortunately killed by a bullet. One of the officers of the rescue party was mortally wounded and Colonel Adams' horse and three others were shot.

Second cousin of Edward Bellew , VC. He later achieved the rank of Major General.

Reference

• Monuments To Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
• The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)
• SCOTLAND'S FORgotten VALOUR (Graham Ross, 1995)

External links

• Burial location of Robert Adams (Glasgow)

This page has been migrated from the Victoria Cross Reference with permission.