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Lance Bombardier ERNEST HOLDING

Service Number: 1516325
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

143 (The Kent Yeomanry) Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 23 April 1947

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WHITTLE-LE-WOODS (ST. JOHN) CHURCHYARD

Grave 255.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest and Annie Louise Holding, of Whittle-le-Woods; husband of Emily Holding, of Farington.
  • Personal Inscription SADLY MISSED BY HIS DEAR WIFE EMILY AND HIS CHILDREN DOREEN, GLENYS AND TREVOR
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Buried or commemorated at

WHITTLE-LE-WOODS (ST. JOHN) CHURCHYARD
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 12
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