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Service
Record Notes
HOLDERNESS, HARRY
Record of Service.
No. 8089 Harry Holderness R. Innis Fus.
79, Gifford Street, Deptford, S.E.
Age 34 years 1 month.
Trade Labourer.
Birthplace Folkestone.
Posted Rifleman 6/10/16.
Absent without leave 26/12/16.
Re-joined 2/2/17.
Sentenced to 56 days detention 16/2/17.
Posted rifleman April 14th
1917.
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Transferred
5/5/17.
Killed in Action (France) 14/10/18.
Home 6/10/16 to 4/4/17.
Expd Force 15/4/17 to 14/10/18.
Regt No. 43879.
Next of kin Wife Gertrude, 31,
Crossfield Street, Deptford, S.E.
(In the documents are letters,
unable to read, some are addressed to Mrs Lucy
Holderness, others Mrs G.
A marriage, December
quarter 1916, of Holderness. Harry and Lacey. Lucy G. at
Greenwich.)
Religion Roman Catholic.
29/7/1917 Wounded in action Gas.
Effects returned, not easy to read all Cap
badges, Cross, Photos, Cards, Letters, 4 Bluebars & Religious
book.
Re 59425H. Holderness H, sentenced to 56
days detention, Please inform me the amount of remission of the
above sentence and authority for same. Kindly also publish in
(Draft Book?)
21 April 1917. Although this man was
brought back from the Detention Barracks, Gosport, before the
expiration of his sentence for the exclusion in the Draft, he
did not proceed overseas until the day after his sentence had
terminated. There is therefore no remission to ------ through
orders.
To the Record Office.
Sir, thank you very much
for your kindness in informing me of the death of my
husband Private H Holderness 4.3879. It was a great blow to me
all the greater because we have been brought up from childhood
together. Will you extend your kindness a little more and tell
me
if any letters or photos may have been found upon my
husband
in support of my claim to a pension once more thanking
you for your kindness I remain yours sincerely, (a little
difficult to read)
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