Private Thomas Frank Holmes

Army Number:15761

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

Born at Leabrooks, Derbyshire. Son of Frank and Alice Holmes (formerly Gibson) of Kirkhamgate, Yorkshire. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Derby. He went to France on 28th July 1915 and was killed in action, 21st November 1915, aged 20, by a German Sniper at Sanctuary Wood, Belgium.

Buried: Menin Road South Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 3. Row C. Grave 13.

Private Thomas Frank Holmes is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
All Saint’s Church War Memorial, Ripley, Derbyshire.