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Digital gallery of Sergeant Howard Leslie Holmes
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Howard Leslie Holmes
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.
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Howard Leslie Holmes
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,
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Howard Leslie Holmes
Oct 2021
Sgt Howard Holmes 1st Mounted Canadian Rifles
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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.
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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,
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Oct 2021 Sgt Howard Holmes 1st Mounted Canadian Rifles
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Commemorated on:
Page 257 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Mont St Eloi is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 8 kilometres north-west of Arras. The village stands on high ground overlooking the battlefields of Vimy and Souchez and the main Bethune-Arras road, and the ruined towers that rise from it were used as an observation post during the French attacks at Neuville-St Vaast and Givenchy in May 1915.
Ecoivres is a hamlet lying at the foot of the hill, to the south-west and about 1.5 kilometres from Mont St Eloi on the Arras-St Pol line. The ECOIVRES MILITARY CEMETERY is on the D49 road.
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