Brigadier Adrian Clements Gore DSO (14 May 1900 – 7 June 1990) was a British Army officer who served with distinction in World War II.

Gore was born at Ayr in Scotland in 1900,[2][3] the only child of Army officer Robert Clements Gore, CB, CMG, and his wife Rachel Cecilia (daughter of Llewellyn Traherne Bassett Saunderson, JP and Lady Rachel Mary Scott, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Clonmell).

During the 1918 season he shot to fame as a fast-medium bowler with a devastating late in-swing who demolished both adult and other schoolboy cricketers.

[10] He served during most of the interwar period with the 2nd Battalion of his regiment, initially in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence[11] and then in Turkey and Malta.

[12] By the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Gore was training officer for the Rifle Brigade and was serving at the regimental depot at Winchester.

[12][16][17] In 1927, Gore married Enid Aimée (1902−1997), daughter of John Jameson Cairnes, of Horton Priory, Sellindge, Kent.