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Name:

John (Jack) HOLLIDAY

Casualty No.:

Ranks:

Lance Corporal

Initials:

Service No.:

1489

Date of Birth :

Place of Birth :

Alecdon, Cumberland.

Age at Death:

Unit:

1st/9th Bn Durham Light Infantry (Territorial Force).

Former Unit(s):

Place Enlisted:

Blaydon on Tyne, Co. Durham.

Place of Residence:

Stargate, Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham.

Home Address:

Stargate, Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham.

Previous Address:

Civilian Employment:

Miner at Stargate Colliery.

How Died:

Died of wounds

Date of Death:

Friday 10th November 1916

Place of Death:

Somme, France.

Battle/Campaign:

Battles of the Somme, France, 1916. Attack on the Butte de Warlencourt and Support Trenches.

Locally Commemorated:

Ryton War Memorial, Station Bank, Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham. Stargate War Memorial, Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham.

UK Commemorated:

Overseas Commemorated:

Buried:

Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France

Decoration and Medals:

Photographs:

Service Records:

Death Notice/Obituary:

Blaydon Courier, page 8, 9th December 1916.

Family Details:

Son of Tom and the late Hannah Holliday of Stargate, Ryton on Tyne, Co. Durham.

Notes :

Sources Used:

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register. Soldiers Died in the Great War.

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