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Lance Corporal WILLIAM HOLMES

Service Number: 14669791
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment)

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 September 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GEEL WAR CEMETERY

IV.B.21.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harry John and Flora Holmes, of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
  • Personal Inscription DEATH DIVIDES BUT MEMORY CLINGS. FOR EVER IN OUR HEARTS
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Buried or commemorated at

GEEL WAR CEMETERY
Antwerpen Belgium
Number of casualties: 400
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