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Private FRANCIS FORSTER HOLMES

Service Number: 345529
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

24th (Denbighshire Yeomanry) Bn.

Date of Death

Died 27 December 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY

E. 27.

Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Francis Holmes, of 101, Sunderland Rd., Altrincham, Cheshire.
  • Personal Inscription HIS WORK WAS NOBLY DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Number of casualties: 2540
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