Holmes, William (1862–1917)
Biographical Entries
Related Entries in NCB Sites
- Travers, Basil Holmes (grandson)
- Pethebridge, Samuel Augustus (colleague)
- McCay, James Whiteside (colleague)
- Monash, John (colleague)
- Dove, Frederick Allan (colleague)
- Carter, Norman St Clair (artist)
- Knight, Guy Cunninghame (senior officer)
- Palazzi, Silvio Alfeira (subordinate officer)
- Palazzi, Joseph F. (subordinate officer)
William Holmes, by Norman Carter, 1920
Australian War Memorial, ART00195
Life Summary [details]
Birth
12 September,
1862
Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australia
Death
2 July,
1917
(aged 54)
Messines,
Belgium
Cause of Death
Cultural Heritage
Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Education
Occupation
Military Service
- Boer War
- Battle of Bullecourt, 1917
- Battle of Flers, 1916
- Battle of Messines, 1917
- Battle of Pozieres, 1916
- Capture of German New Guinea, 1914
- Dardanelles campaign, 1915-16
- 1st Infantry Regiment, NSW Military Forces
- 1st New South Wales Mounted Rifles Regiment
- 1st Australian Infantry Regiment
- 6th Infantry Brigade
- Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force
- 5th Brigade
- 4th Brigade
Awards
- Volunteer Officers' Decoration
- Distinguished Service Order
- Queen's Medal
- Order of St Anne (Russia)
- Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George