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L/Cpl. Edgar Elijah "Edward" Holmes MM.
British Army 12th Btn. Suffolk Regiment
from:Capel, Suffolk
(d.26th Sep 1917)
Edward Holmes was born in 1896. He joined the 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment in Ipswich. On the 16th of January 1915 the Battalion arrived in France. At some point he was transferred to the 9th Battalion as he was in this Battalion when he was awarded his Military Medal in 1916 (the award was announced in the London Gazette on the 27th of October 1916), I haven't been able to find out what he did to be awarded the Medal.
He died of wounds on the 26th of September 1917, his name is on the Thiepval Memorial, I have visited Thiepval and seen his name.
According to the war diary of the time the 12th Battalion was in or near the town of Gonnelieu which is near Cambrai, in September 1917.