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Surname: HOLT
Forename(s): William
Place of Birth: Dunsop Bridge, Yorkshire
Service No: 242631
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 1/5th Battalion
Division: 55th (West Lancashire) Division
Age: ---
Date of Death: 1917-11-30
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 3.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)
Additional Information:
William Holt was the son of Peter and Nancy Holt, née Smithson. Peter was born at Hoghton, Lancashire and Nancy at Slaidburn, Yorkshire.
1881 Bowland Forest High, Yorkshire Census: Weighing Machine - William Holt, aged 2 years, born Slaidburn, Yorkshire, son of Peter and Nancy Holt.
1891 Burnley, Lancashire Census: 34, Leyland Road - William Holt, aged 12 years, born Bolland, Yorkshire, son of Peter and Nancy Holt.
William was married to Rose Ann Peach in 1900.
1901 Burnley, Lancashire Census: 5, Catlow Street - William Holt, aged 22 years, born Slaidburn, Yorkshire, husband of Rose A. Holt.
1911 Burnley, Lancashire Census: 22, Emmett Street - William Holt, aged 31 years, born Dunsop Bridge, Yorkshire, husband of Rose Ann Holt.
The British Army Service Record for William Holt exists but may be incomplete.
Photograph: ‘Burnley Express’ (22 December 1917).
Data Source: Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19 Records
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Private William HOLT
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 55th (West Lancashire) Division
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