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Second Lieutenant GEORGE HOLMES

Regiment & Unit/Ship

East Yorkshire Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 April 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

VIII. A. 7.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert Wilson Holmes and Annie Holmes, of "Ivylea," Roslyn Crescent, Hathersage, Sheffield. Native of Meersbrook Park, Sheffield. Educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and Magdalen College, Oxford.
  • Personal Inscription HE IS NOT DEAD SUCH SPIRITS NEVER DIE
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Buried or commemorated at

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 1951
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