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Trooper JAMES HOLMES

Service Number: 320567
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Tank Regiment, R.A.C.

3rd

Date of Death

Died 15 January 1942

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY

1. D. 17.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James and Alice Holmes, of Benwell, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
  • Personal Inscription HOLD THOU THY CROSS BEFORE MY CLOSING EYES; IN LIFE, IN DEATH, O LORD, ABIDE WITH ME
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Buried or commemorated at

HELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 1830
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