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TO WWI NAMESHOLMES J.
John Holmes
Private 306449
8th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
John Holmes died on Thursday 3rd October 1918, aged 34, and was remembered on the VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France.
Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 6th December 1918
Holmes - In Loving Memory of Private John William Holmes,
306449, 1/8th Sherwood Foresters, killed Somewhere in France, October 3rd
1918, aged 34 years. Duty nobly done. - From Father, Sisters, and Brothers in
France.
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
JOHN HOLMES Enlisted Mansfield (resides Sutton-in-Ashfield) 1/8th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.).
Private 306449, Killed in Action, France & Flanders 3rd Oct 1918.
Research by Helen Wilson and Heather Faulkes