View source for Holmes John Robert Gunner 550647

{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Holmes John Robert
|Army number=550647
|Rank=Gunner
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=Not yet ascertained.
|Age=(At time of death).  Not yet known.
|Unit=Enlisted at Guildford 25/8/1930 in the 3rd Hussars.  Transferred to the Royal Artillery 1/4/1937.  Attended training School?  Posted RA Depot.  Posted 16th Field Regiment.  Posted to the 1st Mountain Regiment 29/3/1941.  Served Normandy?  Posted 1st Mountain Regiment 29/10/1945.  Posted to 14th Medium Regiment 12/11/1945.  Posted to 92nd Anti-Tank Regiment 21/11/1945.  Posted to Draft RABLM for overseas 10/12/1945.  Posted X List (4) East Africa 31/12/1945.  Struck off strength East Africa.  Taken on strength X List 4A Middle East Forces 20/1/1946.  Returned to the UK.  Relegated to Z Reserve 19/8/1952.  Demobilised.  Discharged  from Reserve under paragraph 519 (vii) of King's Regulations 12/5/1953.  Documents to NE/4/B.  Pensioner from 19/9/1952.
|Company/Battery=451 Mountain Battery, 1st Mountain Regiment.
|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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