BORN ANLABY, HULL, 1887. SON OF JOHN THOMAS HOLMES (1856-1908) AND FRANCES ANN HOLMES (1865-1932), OF 8, HERBERTS TERRACE, WESTBOURNE STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL (1911 CENSUS).
HE MARRIED ETHEL SARAH MISKIN, AT HULL, IN 1908. BOARDED AT 28 MARMADUKE STREET, HULL. WIFE ETHEL SARAH HOLMES LIVED AT 16, WOLFRETON ROAD, ANLABY, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE WAS A BRICKLAYER.
ENLISTED ANLABY. SERVED AS A SAPPER, IN THE ROYAL ENGINEERS. DIED ON 09/07/1917, AGED 30. COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS AND WAR PENSION WENT TO HIS WIDOW, ETHEL (BORN 1886) AND THEIR TWO CHILDREN, JOHN AND ETHEL, AT THIS PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS.
HIS NAME IS ONE OF 31 LISTED ON THE ANLABY WW1 MEMORIAL, ST PETER’S CHURCHYARD, WILSON STREET, ANLABY.
ALSO ONE OF 12 NAMES LISTED ON THE NORMAN PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH MEMORIAL, HAWTHORNE AVENUE, HULL, UNVEILED, ON 6TH JUNE 1920.
