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Lieutenant DAVID SELWYN HOLMESTED

Service Number: 131279
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Date of Death

Died 09 November 1942

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EL ALAMEIN WAR CEMETERY

V. A. 19.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of George Selwyn Holmested and Julia Helen Holmested, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. B.Sc. (University of Toronto).
  • Personal Inscription A DEARLY LOVED AND ONLY SON STEADFAST, FAITHFUL AND TRUE
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