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Private SAMUEL KNIGHT HOLMES

Service Number: 13290
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 25 October 1914

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

YPRES TOWN CEMETERY

A1. 15.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel Knight Holmes and Annie Holmes, of 45, Gawthorne St., New Basford, Nottingham.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MAY LIVE FROM MOTHER, FATHER BROTHERS, SISTERS
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Buried or commemorated at

YPRES TOWN CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 145
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