BORN 1887. SON OF HENRY & ANNIE ELIZABETH, OF 35, NEWTON STREET, HULL. HE HAD THREE OLDER BROTHERS – WALTER, LEONARD AND FRED.
MARRIED AT ST STEPHEN’S CHURCH, HULL, ON 02/01/1904. HIS WIFE BEATRICE GERTRUDE ATKINSON LIVED WITH THEIR TWO SONS, CYRIL AND GEORGE HOLMES, AT 9, MALVERN TERRACE, GILLETT STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION & ARMY ADDRESS). HIS OTHER ARMY ADDRESS, WAS 1, ASH GROVE, EASTBOURNE STREET, HULL.
BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED AS A FRUIT BUYING AGENT AND LABOURER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL ON 04/01/1915. SERVED WITH THE 12TH EYR. DISCHARGED 82 DAYS LATER WITH RHEUMATIC ARTHRITIS. RE-ENLISTED AND DIED OF ILLNESS, ON 06/03/1919 AGED 33. HE IS BURIED IN A CWGC GRAVE AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.