Holmes, Frank Harold

BORN 1887. SON OF HENRY & ANNIE ELIZABETH, 35 NEWTON STREET. HE HAD THREE OLDER BROTHERS – WALTER, LEONARD AND FRED. MARRIED AT ST STEPHEN’S CHURCH HULL, ON 2/01/1904. HIS WIFE BEATRICE GERTRUDE ATKINSON LIVED ABOVE WITH THEIR TWO SONS, CYRIL AND GEORGE HOLMES. HIS ARMY ADDRESS WAS ALSO GIVEN AS ARMY ADDRESS 1 ASH GROVE, EASTBOURNE STREET. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED AS A FRUIT BUYING AGENT AND LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL ON 4/01/1915. HE WAS DISCHARGED 82 DAYS LATER WITH RHEUMATIC ARTHRITIS.RE-ENLISTED AND DIED OFF ILLNESS ON 6/03/1919. HE IS BURIED IN A CWGC GRAVE AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.