HOLMES,+LEON

Holmes, Leon Albert, Private, 1003600, 102nd Battalion, Canadian Infantry Born Borrowash, Derbyshire Enlisted Sudbury, Ontario Resided Crean Hill, Ontario Killed in action 27th September 1918 aged 25 Commemorated on the Vimy Memorial

1911 Census A coal miner Son of John, a postman, and Rose Emma Holmes, of 2, Belle Vue Terrace, Station Road, Borrowash, Derbyshire

Canadian Army Service records information: Leon was stated to have been born in Chester, England, on the 28th March, 1893. He enlisted in Sudbury, Ontario, 19th June 1916, stating his occupation as a fitter, and his next of kin as his wife, Marie Holmes, of Crean Hill, Ontario. He was five feet two and a half inches in height, had a clear complexion, brown eyes and brown hair, and belonged to the Church of England.


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