Philip Gordon HOLMES

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HOLMES, Philip Gordon

Service Number:	524
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	1st Battalion Imperial Camel Corps
Born:	Grassington, Yorkshire, England, 1887
Home Town:	Adelaide, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Monumental Mason
Died:	Killed in Action, Egypt, 9 January 1917
Cemetery:	Kantara War Memorial Cemetery Grave F. 298. INSCRIPTION - HERE LIES THE REMAINS OF ONE OF BRITAIN'S BRAVEST & BEST SONS
Memorials:	Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 1 Service

18 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 524, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: ''
18 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 524, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide
9 Jan 1917:	Involvement Private, 524, 1st Battalion Imperial Camel Corps, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 524 awm_unit: 1 Battalion Imperial Camel Corps awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-01-09

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Biography contributed by Sharyn Roberts

Son of Sarah HOLMES

Of Grassington, Yorkshire, England

Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

Births Jun 1887 Holmes Philip Gordon Skipton 9a 61

He was 30 and the son of Fieldhouse and Sarah Holmes, of Grassington, Skipton, Yorks, England.

He is one of two Australian casualties of the Great War commemorated on the Linton- in-Craven war memorials-one is on the village green and the other in the Church of St Michael & All Angels Book of Remembrance. The other soldier is Private William Gordon Campbell- Service Number 2304, also aged 30 and also of the Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

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