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Pte. Albert Victor Holden
British Army Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Pte. Albert Holden
Briish Army 2nd Btn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Haslingden
(d.25th Nov 1917)
Albert Holden was my wife's great uncle, born in April 1889 . We visited Ypres and Tyne Cot Cemetery.
CQMS Arthur Holden
British Army 9th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Chorley, Lancs
(d.30th August 1915)
Pte. Henry Holden
British Army 2nd Btn. Scots Guards
from:Newton Common
(d.13th Apr 1918)
Harry Holden served with the 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards during WW1 and was killed in action on the 13th April 1918, aged 25. He is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing in Belgium. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Holden of 63, Clarence Street, Newton Common.
Pte. Henry Holden
British Army 2nd Btn. Irish Guards
from:Newton le Willows
(d.13th April 1918)
My Great uncle was Henry Holden, son of Jane & Thomas Holden of 63 Clarence Street, Newton le Willow. He was educated at St. Mary's & enlisted in army in 1911, No. 66808 in the Royal Field Artillary. He transferred to 2nd Btn, Irish Guards. He had been four times wounded and died 13th April 1918 at the Battle of Hazebrouck. His body was never found but he is remembered on the Ploegsteert Memorial
Pte. Henry Holden
British Army 2nd Btn. Irish Guards
from:Newton-le-Willows
(d.13th April 1918)
Pte Henry Holden of the Irish Guards was the son of Mr & Mrs Thomas Holden (my great grandperants on my father's side) of 63 Cllarence Street, Newton-le-Willows. He was educated at St Mary's Newton-le-Willows. He joined the Royal Field Artillery in 1911, and he had been wounded four times, but was in the Irish Guards when he was killed in action on 13th of April 1918, having been reported missing. He was 25 years old & had been in the army seven years.
Gnr Henry "Harry" Holden
British Army 11th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
(d.13th Apr 1918)
Henry Holden, served as a Gunner with 11th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. and later as a Private with 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards. 11th Brigade RFA had arrived in France from India in September 1914 but Henry did not arrive in France until the 7th November that year. Henry had seen some service in India before the First World War.
Henry served for the majority of the war with the Royal Field Artillery and only transferred to the Irish Guards in February 1918. It was not uncommon for soldiers to be compulsorily transferred to different regiments from 1916, but it is not common to see a transfer between corps, in this case a transfer from the corps of artillery to the infantry. Remember too, that Henry was a career soldier and a career artilleryman. However, the destruction of Henry's papers by German bombing in September 1940 almost certainly destroyed the last hope of ever ascertaining why he transferred to the Irish Guards in February 1918. He was certainly home in the UK in August 1917, possibly as a sick or wounded soldier, as evidenced by his marriage certificate.
Pte. Herbert Holden
British Army 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
(d.18th April 1917)
Herbert Holden was killed in action 18th April 1917, he is remembered on the Basra War Memorial in Iraq.
Pte. James William Holden
Austalian Imperial Force 7th Field Ambulance
James Holden married my great, great aunt, Ellen William from Wagin WA.
Pte. Richard Holden
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Wheatley Hill
(d.1st July 1916)
Richard Holden is named on the Thiepval Memorial
Pte. Thomas Holden
British Army 3rd Btn. Worcestershire Regiment
from:Oldbury, Worcestershire
Pte. Thomas Holden
British Army 10th Bn. Cameronians Scottish Rifles
from:Great Harwood
(d.25th September 1915)
Thomas Holden was killed in action at the Battle of Loos on 25th of September 1915.
L/Cpl. Wilfrid Holden
British Army 12th (West Somerset Yeomanry) Bn Somerset Light Infantry.
from:Preston
(d.2nd September 1918)
Wilfrid Holden died on the 2nd September 1918, aged 27 and is buried in the Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension in France. He was the son of Edward and Catherine Holden, of Gainsborough, Ribbleton Avenue, Preston.
Pte. A. S. Holder
British Army 12th Btn. London Regiment
Pte. Arthur Stanley Holder
British Army 12th (The Rangers) Battalion London Regiment
from:Harlesden
(d.26th Aug 1918)
Sgt Arthur Holding DCM.
British Army 3rd Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Altofts, Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Arthur Holding was a Sergeant with the 3rd battalion, Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry he was awarded the The Distinguished Conduct medal and the Russian Cross of St George for conspicuous bravery in action near Thiepval on 1st July 1916
Pte. Daniel Holding
British Army 96th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps.
from:West Gorton, Manchester
Daniel Holding served with 96th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps.
L/Cpl. Leonard de Wilde Holding
British Army 153rd Field Coy. Royal Engineers
from:Northampton
(d.18th July 1917)
Leonard Holding, born on 20th January 1891 in St. Edmunds, Northampton was the Son of Matthew Henry and Edith Holding of 49 Billing Road, Northampton. He was an engineer and enlisted on 29th of August 1914 in Northampton. He served with 153rd Field Company, Royal Engineers. He died of gunshot wounds to the head on 18th of July 1917 and is buried in Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery, France. A pupil of Bedford Modern School 1906-08, he is commemorated on the School War Memorial. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
Capt. H. B. Holdsworth
Army 8th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Gnr. Herbert Holdsworth
British Army 247th Siege Battery Royal Artillery
Rfm. Joe Willie Holdsworth
British Army 18th Btn. Kings Royal Rifle Corps
from:Netherton, Nr Huddersfield
(d.20th Sep 1917)
Joe Willie Holdsworth was a great grandfather I would never get to meet. He enlisted on the 6th of July 1915, and was killed in action on the 20th of September 1917. His name is on the Memorial wall at Tyne Cot Memorial. I would like to know where the 18th Bn was fighting on that day. I only have a photo of him as a boy. Even then he was dressed in uniform.
Sig. John Willie Holdsworth
British Army 310th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Thornton
John Holdsworth signed up August 1914 in Pals Battalion aged 16. Initially he was sent to a coastal battery at South Shields. He arrived in France in June 1915. He was first injured in June 1916, He returned to the lines in December 1916. On the 21st of August he was being buried, when he moved. He was barely alive and was sent to UK where the remnants of his damaged lung were surgically removed. Injury caused by shrapnel from German shellfire. Death notices had already been sent to his father with letters from his superiors. His obituary was published in the Shipley Times and Express on the 31st of August 1917.
John survived until May 1975 with one lung and some plumbing in silver. A remarkable testimony to his strength, the surgeons and infection control.
Pte Tom Brown Holdsworth
British Army 1st Btn Border Regiment
from:Wigton, Cumberland
(d.19th May 1917)
At the time of his death, Tom Brown Holdsworth was a member of the 1st Battalion, Border Regiment which, in turn was part of the 29th Division, involved in the Battle of Arras. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Probationer Surgeon. Wesley Cope Holdsworth
Royal Navy HMS Begonia
from:Tunbridge Wells
(d.17th Oct 1917)
Wesley Holdsworth was, my Great Great Uncle, all I know was that he was a very academically talented boy, who won many awards whilst at school for being a top student. He joined the Navy as a probationer surgeon, but was tragically killed when HMS Begonia, a Q Class sloop, was lost in the Atlantic (possibly in the Bristol Channel?) when it was sunk with all hands having either been torpedoed or colliding with a German U Boat. Tragically, his brother Arther Holdsworth was killed less than a year later whilst serving as a Captain with the Lancashire Fusiliers, succumbing to wounds whilst a POW, which he received on the Western Front. He had already been awarded the Military Cross. They were both survived by their eldest brother, Benjamin Holdsworth, who served in Mesopotania.
Surgeon Probationer Wesley Cope Holdsworth
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve HMS Begonia
from:16 Pembury Road, Tonbridge, Kent
(d.6th Oct 1917)
Wes was a gifted academic at school, winning many prizes for his efforts. On leaving, he changed his plans to read Arts at Glasgow because of the war, and entered medicine instead. He had taken his "Second Professional" when he joined up and was killed very soon afterwards, having been posted to the "Q" Ship, HMS Begonia as a Surgeon Probationer. He had two other brothers; Joseph who served with the Lancashire Fusiliers who sadly died of his wounds in June 1918 having won an MC, and Benjamin, who survived the conflict. The three brothers are all my Great Great Uncles.
William Henry Holdsworth
Britsh Army East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Bradford, West Yorkshire
Bill Holdsworth is my Mother's Great Uncle from her Father's side of the family. He was born 8th May 1884 in Bradford West Yorkshire. I am unsure as to what Regiment William served in, I did recall someone saying it was the East Yorkshire Regiment judging by the Military badge on his cap but I am not certain.
Pte. Willie Holdsworth
British Army West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Eccleshill, West Yorkshire
L/Cpl. Charles Edwin Hole
British Army 5th Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
(d.11th January 1917)
Charles Hole died on the 11th of January 1917 and is buried in the Amara War Cemetery in Iraq.
Able Sea. E. J. Hole
Royal Navy HMS Highflyer
(d.19th September 1915)
Able Seaman Hole is buried in the Mindelo Municipal Cemetery in Sao Vicente, Cape Verde, Grave 104.
Dvr. Thomas Hole
British Army Y Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Craghead, Co Durham
My Granddad Thomas Hole joined in 1916 as a gunner but I don't really know anything more. On a card I have from 1919 he transferred to the reserves at the end of the war and it says one of his specialist military qualifications was as a driver, not that this seems something that would be classed as specialist but maybe then it was. If anyone could help with any information or knows where I could find information that would be a great help and then I could add more to his story.
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