PRIVATE ARTHUR GEORGE HOLMANS 1917

 

 

THE QUEEN’S REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION

Patron: Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark

 

                              

 ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY

 

ON 30 NOVEMBER 1917, PRIVATE ARTHUR GEORGE HOLMANS, 6TH BUFFS, DIED AT THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI.  HE WAS OFFICIALLY JUST 20 YEARS OLD BUT HAD JOINED UP TWO YEARS UNDERAGE ON 13 AUGUST 1914.

 

HE WAS ‘KEEN TO DO HIS DUTY, AND A WELL-BUILT STURDY LAD’. HE WENT TO FRANCE ON 1 JUNE 1915 AND WITH THE EXCEPTION OF 10 DAYS LEAVE REMAINED ON ACTIVE SERVICE UNTIL HIS DEATH. HIS BODY WAS NEVER FOUND AND HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL

 

ARTHUR LIVED AT 5 ALFRED SQUARE

THE CURRENT HEADQUARTERS OF THE QUEEN’S REGIMENTAL ASSOCIATION

 

HE IS NOT FORGOTTEN