BORN HULL 1893. ONLY SON OF ALFRED & SARAH A. HOLMES, OF 99, MIDDLETON STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). EDUCATED AT HULL TECHNICAL COLLEGE. EMPLOYED IN HIS FATHER’S GROCER BUSINESS, MESSRS, BROWN, HOLMES AND COX, AT 11 CARR LANE, HULL.
HE ENLISTED AT HULL, IN 1911. SERVED AS PTE. ALFRED GORDON HOLMES, EAST RIDING YEOMANRY AND WAS MOBILIZED ON THE FIRST DAY OF WAR. HE SERVED IN THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO THE MACHINE GUN CORPS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/09/1918, AGED 26. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 14/10/1918. *
BURIED AT WINDMILL BRITISH CEMETERY, MONCHY-LE-PREUX, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE READS, “LOVED, HONOURED, MOURNED”
HE LEFT £199 IN HIS WILL. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE HULL TECHNICAL COLLEGE WW! ROLL OF HONOUR.
