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Military service
Service number:
105121
Age:
22
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles (Saskatchewan Regt.)
Birth:
March 5, 1895
Death:
March 29, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. J. 9.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Howard Leslie Holmes
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I am visiting the cemetery at Mont St Eloi on 6th October 2021. Howard was my Great Uncle, born in Bolsover Derbyshire he emigrated to Canada then joined the 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles. His surviving family today, his nephew Howard age 90 lives in Ashby de la Zouch Leicestershire and visited his grave a few years ago. His neice's Stella and Peggy also 90+ are both living today with extensive families of their own in Leicestershire and Florida. -
Cimetière
pictures from our recent Oct '21 visit to Howards grave in Mont St Eloi cemetery, a visit to the church in the village up the hill left in its shelled state and visit to Vimy ridge, -
Pierre tombale
Oct 2021 Sgt Howard Holmes 1st Mounted Canadian Rifles
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Howard Leslie Holmes
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Howard Leslie Holmes
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Howard Leslie Holmes
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Commemorated on:
Page 257 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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