Joseph William Holmes

A Rifleman with 2nd Bn., Joseph died on 17th of March 1915 at the age of 21. 

Joseph was born at Hammersmith, London, in 1892, a son of Ernest William and Alice Mary Holmes. In 1891 his family lived at 40 Monument Street, Peterborough. Later his mother lived at Pipe Lane, Peterborough and, subsequently, at Rose Villa, Camps Heath, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft. 

Joseph was living at Kilburn when he enlisted in the Army, at Willesden, in late 1908. He joined the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). In 1911 he was serving with the 2nd Battalion at Colchester. 

Joseph arrived in France with the 2nd Battalion on 7 November 1914. Whilst we do not know precisely when, or how, Joseph was wounded, it is probable that he was wounded at Nueve Chapelle between 10 and 14 March, during which time the Battalion lost 125 killed, 323 wounded, and 21 missing.

Joseph died of wounds at Boulogne.