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Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Harry Holmes

In memory of:

Corporal Harry Holmes

March 30, 1918
France

Military Service


Service Number:

216751

Age:

35

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)

Division:

78th Bn.

Honours and Awards:

Military Medal

Additional Information


Born:

July 2, 1882
Belper, Derbyshire, England

Enlistment:

March 20, 1916
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Son of Herbert and Hannah Maria Holmes; husband of Jessie (nee Dyer) Holmes, of Reaburn, Manitoba. Father of Flying Officer Ernest Dyer Holmes, No. 4 Flying Training Unit, accidentally killed on 9 December 1953.

Commemorated on Page 431 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

VILLERS STATION CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

XII. B. 7.

Location:

Villers-au-Bois is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 11 kilometres north-west of Arras. The VILLERS STATION CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-west of the village.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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