Albert Ernest Adams was the captain of the Toowoomba representative soccer side in 1913, before enlisting early in the war.
Adams was sent to Gallipoli with the 15th Battalion where he received a gunshot wound to the calf in May 1915. While admitted to hospital he was diagnosed with defective sight and was discharged to Australia. Adams enlisted again in January 1917 and arrived in England mid-year. However, he never left England, working at various camps before again being discharged as medically unfit in mid-1918 to allow him to take up employment as a munitions worker.
Adams was added to the Toowoomba British Football Association honour board alongside his brother Sydney, who died in Gallipoli. After the war Adams moved to Sydney, where he continued the John Adams and Son engineering company. After surviving a plane crash in the 1930s, Adams died in 1968 in Canley Vale aged 75.