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Private EDGAR HUGH HOLMES

Service Number: 18624
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 08 November 1916

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY

V. D. 25.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Hugh Holmes, of 30, Greenhill Rd., Grantham; husband of Annie Elizabeth Holmes, of 19, Robertson Rd., Grantham.
  • Personal Inscription DEATH DIVIDES BUT MEMORY CLINGS
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Buried or commemorated at

COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1968
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