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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Holloway Edmund
|Army number=4862701
|Rank=Gunner
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=Not yet ascertained.
|Age=(At time of death).  Not yet known.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Leicestershire Regiment 7/6/1940.  Underwent Basic Training.  Transferred to the Royal Artillery 28/12/1942 and posted to the 185th Field Regiment.  Posted to Regimental Home Details 25/8/1943.  Posting cancelled by Part 2 Order.  Posted to Home Details 30/12/1943.  Returned to the War Establishment of the 185th Field Regiment 8/6/1944.  Served North West Europe.  Posted to Number 46 Reinforcement Holding Unit 10/12/1944.  Returned to the UK.  Posted to the RA Depot 13/12/1944.  ERE 10/45 30/1/1945.  Posted to the 175th Field Regiment 15/3/1945.  Posted to the 120th Field Regiment 3/4/1945.  Posted back to the 175th Field Regiment 25/4/1945.  Under Part 2 Order No.2. posted to ASTU 17/5/1945.  Posted to 48 Infantry (Reserve) Divisional Employment Pool 9/6/1945.  Posted Y List 18/11/1945.  Discharged under 1940 King's Regulations Para 390 (xvi) 19/1/1946.  Demobilised.
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Details awaited.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet ascertained.
|Home address=No family information yet. 
}}

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