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Private HERBERT HOLMES

Service Number: 166794
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Pioneers

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 April 1916

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURE NO.3

XIII. L. 19.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Mathew and Hannah Mary Holmes; husband of Christina Holmes, of 17246, Hawthorne Avenue, Detroit, Mitchigan, U.S.A.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR OTHERS
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Buried or commemorated at

VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURE NO.3
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1613
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