ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH. 
WAR SERVICE ROLL. 
I9QI4-19109. 
Showing the names, with short statement of service, 
of Members of the Staff°of the Royal Botanic 
Garden, Edinburgh, who at the call of duty joined 
H.M. Naval and Military Forces for the Great War 
which began in August 1914. 
AT the outbreak of war in August 1914 the appeal for recruits 
for H.M. Forces met with ready response from the Staff, of 
the Royal Botanic Garden. Before many weeks had passed 
every fit man who would be accepted had left for service. At 
the time the Garden Staff was one of 110 members, of whom 
one-fifth were women. Of the men, 73 joined the Forces. Over 
a fourth of these have given their lives for their country. The 
publication of this list as an Official Record of the Garden will 
preserve for all time the story of the loyalty of our Garden Staff, 
and will carry, it is hoped, to the relatives and friends of those 
of the Staff who fell in the War the message that the devotion 
and self-sacrifice of these men is a living memory which we 
cherish and desire to perpetuate, And no less, we trust, will 
those who have borne their share of the burden and who are 
still with us accept this tribute of recognition of what they 
have done for us. 
James Christopher Adam. 
Joined staff of Garden as Helper, 12th April 1912. Enlisted 
Royal Scots, 17th January 1917, Rank—Private. Later, 
Machine Gun Corps. Service in field in Flanders, 3 months. 
Killed in action, 21st March 1918. 
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