Service Details
Name:
 HOLMES
Given Name:
 ERNEST CAMERON
Initials:
 E C
Rank:
 Second Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 King's Royal Rifle Corps
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Unit:
 13th Bn.
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Date of Death:
 1916-11-14
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Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action. The 13th K.R.R.C. (111th Brigade, 37th Division) was detached to the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division and took part in the capture of Beaucourt.
Additional
Information:
Son of Capt. Louis Stuart Holmes and Mrs. E. L. Holmes, of Nqamakwe, Cape Province, South Africa. Commemoration stone in Mthatha St. John's Cemetery
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Somme
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Cemetery:
 HAMEL MILITARY CEMETERY, BEAUMONT-HAMEL
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Grave Reference:
 II. D. 3.

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