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Military service
Service number:
B/37407
Age:
21
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
January 11, 1921
Ottawa, Ontario
Enlistment:
March 16, 1940
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 1.
Additional information
Son of Lionel and Mary Holmes.
Digital gallery of Private John Bernard Holmes
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Brookwood Memorial
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Newspaper Clipping
Hamilton paper article -
Photo of John Holmes
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Plaque
Brookwood Plaque -
Plaque
Brookwood Plaque details -
Inscription on Brookwood Memorial
Private John Bernard Holmes is one of seventeen members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John Bernard Holmes
Digital gallery of
Private John Bernard Holmes
Digital gallery of
Private John Bernard Holmes
Digital gallery of
Private John Bernard Holmes
Digital gallery of
Private John Bernard Holmes
Digital gallery of
Private John Bernard Holmes
Digital gallery of
Private John Bernard Holmes
Digital gallery of
Private John Bernard Holmes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 82 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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