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Corporal JAMES HOLMES

Service Number: L/17738
Regiment & Unit/Ship

London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)

2nd/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 14 August 1918

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

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II. F. 2.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Edith Holmes, of Shipton Thorpe, Market Weighton, Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED FOR HIS COUNTRY'S CAUSE MAY HE REST IN PEACE MOTHER
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Seine-Maritime France
Number of casualties: 299
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