Private Harold Holness

Army Number : 307285

Battalion : 2/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He was born in Ash, Kent and lived at Canterbury. Son of Joseph and Edith Holness, of Guston Ash, Canterbury. He was killed in action, 7th April 1917, during the attack at Le Verguier, north-west of Saint Quentin, France.

Buried: Vadencourt British Cemetery, Maissemy, France. Plot 2. Row C. Grave 49.

Vadencourt British Cemetery, Maissemy, France.

Private Harold Holness grave — Photograph of headstone kindly supplied by Barry Sisson.