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Private JOSEPH HOLMES

Service Number: 4923722
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 October 1944

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GEEL WAR CEMETERY

IV.D.25.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Martha Sarah Holmes, of Nuneaton, Warwickshire; husband of Clara Holmes, of Nuneaton.
  • Personal Inscription SWEET ARE THE MEMORIES SILENTLY KEPT OF ONE WE ALL LOVED AND NEVER FORGET
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Buried or commemorated at

GEEL WAR CEMETERY
Antwerpen Belgium
Number of casualties: 400
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