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Lance Corporal JOSEPH HOLMES

Service Number: 3324496
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gordon Highlanders

5/7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 August 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

V. A. 4.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Wilkie and Maria Elizabeth Holmes; husband of Joyce May Holmes, of Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND OF JOYCE MAY HOLMES AND BELOVED SON OF MARIA AND LATE WILKIE HOLMES
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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