Sergeant Edward Holmes

Army Number: 10231

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born and lived at Cold Newton, Leicestershire. Son of William and Mary Holmes, of Cold Newton. He enlisted at Nottingham and went to France on 4th November 1914 and was killed in action, on 11th March 1915, aged 24, during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, France.

Buried: Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France. Plot 16. Row B. Grave 7.

Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France.
Sergeant Edward Holmes grave

Sergeant Edward Holmes is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
All Saints Churchyard Gate War Memorial, Lowesby, Leicestershire.

His brother Private Daniel Holmes, 6th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, also fell in the Great War.