Service no. 11830
Private, Coldstream Guards, 3rd Battalion
Died on 28 June 1916, aged 28
CWGC: "Son of H. N. and M. Holmes, of High Bank, Summer Hill, Douglas, Isle of Man."
Born in Manchester; lived in Douglas, Isle of Man; enlisted in Holborn, London
Remembered at Ferme-Olivier Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Information from the censuses
In 1911, Albion Holmes was a 23-year-old mechanical organ builder, one of 23 boarders living at 5 Edgcumbe Street, East Stonehouse, Devon. He was born in Manchester. His parents lived separately. Horatio Nelson Holmes, 55, also a mechanical organ builder, born in Bradford, Yorkshire lived with his daughter Esther at 51 Rosebery Square Buildings, Rosebery Avenue E C. His mother, Martha, lived at 3 Tramway Terrace, Queens Promenade, Douglas, Isle of Man with two children, Agnes and Horatio.