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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Holmes Morien
|Army number=4457150
|Rank=L /Sgt
|Decorations=M.i.D.
|Age=0
|Unit=Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date, Trf Black Watch 1/2/1940, Posted 1 TS, Posted ? Bn Black Watch, Class Z Army Reserve 24/3/46.
|Prisoner of War=383, 6250
|Home address=6, Aylesbury Avenue, Blackpool, S.S.
|Source table=1TS
}}

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 {{Personnel
-|Surname and forenames=Holmes Morien
+|Surname and forenames=Holmes Morien Welbury
 |Army number=4457150
 |Rank=Lance Sergeant.
 |Decorations=M.i.D. and Service Awards.
-|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date, but probably Summer 1939.  Posted to the 9th Battalion DLI.  Posted to the 12th Battalion DLI - probably 1/9/1939.  Transferred Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served in Northern France with the B.E.F.  Included in the acquittance roll for 10/5/1940.  Taken Prisoner of War.  Repatriated to the UK.  Posted ? Battalion Black Watch on the disbanding of the 1st Tyneside Scottish and return to the UK.  Relegated to the Class Z Army Reserve 24/3/46.
+|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, 13/10/1939.  Posted to the 9th Battalion DLI.  Posted to the 12th Battalion DLI - probably 1/9/1939.  Transferred to the Black Watch 1/2/1940, and posted to the 1st Tyneside Scottish.  Served in Northern France with the B.E.F.  Included in the acquittance roll for 10/5/1940.  Taken Prisoner of War.  Repatriated to the UK.  Posted ? Battalion Black Watch on the disbanding of the 1st Tyneside Scottish and return to the UK.  Relegated to the Class Z Army Reserve 24/3/46.
-|Prisoner of War=Yes - held in Camp383, PoW Number 6250.
+|Prisoner of War=Yes - held in Stalag XXA June 1940 - July 1940 and Stalag 383 Hohnfells Sept 1940 - 17/4/1945, Held in Work Camps at Czersk and Guttawich in Poland, working on road-making. PoW Number 6250.
-|Home address=6, Aylesbury Avenue, Blackpool, S.S.
+|Home address=In 1939 lived at 48 Frobisher Street, Hebburn.  Later lived at 33, Sunderland Street, Houghton le Spring.  Adopted as a child.  On 1/1/1931 married Lilian Mills (1910 - 1985).
 |Source table=1TS
-|Date of birth=Not yet known.
+|Date of birth=Born 21/1/1908 in Gosforth.
-|Age=(At time of death).Not yet known.
+|Age=73 at the time of his death.
 |Company/Battery=HQ Company.
 |Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
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 |Joined Brigade=1/9/1939.
 |Promotions=None known beyond Lance Sergeant.
-|Wounded=Not as far as is known.
+|Wounded=No.
-|Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet ascertained.
+|Died/Killed in action=Died 28/12/1981 in Michigan City, Indiana, USA, aged 73.
 }}