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Sapper JOHN HOLMES

Service Number: 251886
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

33rd Light Railway Operating Coy.

Date of Death

Died 21 October 1917

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RENINGHELST NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

IV. B. 3.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Elizabeth Holmes, of 16, Moor End, Spondon, Derby.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY A VOLUNTEER
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Buried or commemorated at

RENINGHELST NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 800
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