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Military service
Service number:
B/41807
Age:
29
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
Birth:
April 7, 1915
London, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
June 24, 1942
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
September 8, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
1. F. 10.
Additional information
Son of William and Ethel Holmes of Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Corporal William George Holmes
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Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Niagara Falls Evening Review. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the St. Catharines Standard c.September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture me
Digital gallery of
Corporal William George Holmes
Digital gallery of
Corporal William George Holmes
Digital gallery of
Corporal William George Holmes
Digital gallery of
Corporal William George Holmes
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 337 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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