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Pte. John Wiseman Holmes

British Army 12th Battalion Prince of Wales Own (Yorkshire Regiment)

from:Jarrow

(d.13th Dec 1917)

John Wiseman Holmes served with the 12th Battalion Prince of Wales Own (Yorkshire Regiment). He was aged 34 when he died on 13th December 1917. He was born in Leeds in 1883, he lived and enlisted in Jarrow. On the 1911 census he is recorded as John Wiseman Holmes age 27 Dock Labourer in Shipyard is with his wife Margaret Davis Holmes (nee Smith) and son at 135 Salem Street, Jarrow.

John is buried in Mory Abbey Military Cemetery, Mory and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.



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