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Lance Corporal JAMES WILLIAM HOLMES

Service Number: 3863646
Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Lancashire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 March 1945

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY

13. E. 6.

Germany

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Richard William and Harriet May Holmes; husband of Alice Florence Holmes, of West Kirby, Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription SAFE IN GOD'S KEEPING TILL WE MEET AGAIN. YOUR LOVING WIFE
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Buried or commemorated at

RHEINBERG WAR CEMETERY
Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany
Number of casualties: 3339
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