Private J. Holmes

Army Number : 19538

Battalion : 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, of Longton; Husband of Elizabeth Holmes, of 59 Villiers Street, Dresden, Longton, Stoke-On-Trent.

Killed in action, 14th February 1916, aged 24, during heavy German shellfire and the explosion of a German mine, prior to the German attack of the front line trenches, near the canal to the south-east of Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.