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Private WILLIAM HOLMES

Service Number: 20600
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Coldstream Guards

3rd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 March 1918

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DOUCHY-LES-AYETTE BRITISH CEMETERY

IV. C. 21.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Mary Holmes, of Leicester; husband of Florence Holmes, of 22, Rendell Rd., Leicester.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN
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Buried or commemorated at

DOUCHY-LES-AYETTE BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 738
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