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Corporal CHARLES SAMUEL HOLMES

Service Number: 11474
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Fusiliers

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 04 August 1916

Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY

I. A. 6.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Hannah and the late Samuel Holmes, of Heckington, Lincs.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS DEEPLY MOURNED MOTHER
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Buried or commemorated at

VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 1220
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