Private Joseph Holmes

Army Number: 200188 formerly 1740

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Awards: Military Medal

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Husband of Annie Giles (Formerly Holmes), of 204, Slack Lane, Derby. Went to France on 1st March 1915. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 30, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.