NAME; Holmes, William
RANK; Rifleman
SERV. NO; 12/17890
UNIT/SERVICE; 12th
Battalion - Royal Irish Rifles
BORN; Carrickfergus,
8 December 1892
LIVED; Unknown
ENLISTED; Mossley, 1914
FATE; Killed in
Action, France
CEMETERY; Body Never
Recovered
CHURCH; Unknown
MEMORIAL; Cambrai Memorial,
Louverval (France) – Panel 10
REMARKS; William
Holmes was born in Carrickfergus on 8 December 1892 the son of Andrew and
Martha Holmes (nee Mackey) and half brother to Agnes, George, Gladys and
Margaret (his mother died when he was a young child and his father remarried
Sarah Moore in 1899). By 1911 he was
living in Ballyclare with his family and working as a cleaner at local bleach
green. He joined the 12th
Battalion Royal Irish Rifles at Mossley in 1914 and following training was
posted to France on active service in October 1915. William was killed in action on 22 November
1917, his body was never recovered and he is forever remembered on panel 10 of Cambrai
Memorial, Louverval (pictured).
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