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Private GERALD HOLT

Service Number: 29395
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Lancashire Fusiliers

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 July 1916

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BEAUVAL COMMUNAL CEMETERY

B. 36.

France

Images showing detail and positioning of marker plaque which replaces w/marble cross (dismantled) as per 708 for site. Not clear if this a Commission marker. 708 also lists 2 additional burials not included on this marker.

Photographer: Chas Coaton

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Elizabeth Jane Holt, of Vineyard Cottage, Wardle, Rochdale, and the late Charles Holt.
  • Personal Inscription A SORROW TOO DEEP FOR WORDS MOTHER VINEYARD, WARDLE
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Buried or commemorated at

BEAUVAL COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 249
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