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Herbert Holliday

Great Britain, Royal Naval Division Casualties of the Great War
Able Seaman Herbert Holliday, Bristol Z/420, Anson Battalion, Royal Naval Volunteer
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Reserve, missing, assumed killed in action, 26 October 1917, Enlisted 14/12/14 ;
Collingwood Bn. 'C' Company 4th Platoon 4/3/15, transferred to Anson Bn. 8/6/15-29/4/17
GSW Head, rejoined Anson Bn. 24/5/17-9/9/17 Bomb wounds to legs (Accidental), rejoined
Anson Bn. 13/9/17-26/10/17 DD. A Labourer; b.17/3/1892 ; Next-of-Kin & home address:
Mother, Mrs A.Holliday, Dial Cottages, Tardebigge, Bromsgrove, Worcs.
Forces War Records, Able Seaman Herbert Holliday’s parents were John and Ann Holliday of
Dial Cottages, Tardebigge.

Remembered on St Bartholomew’s Church war memorial, Tardebigge.

(On the 1911 census Herbert Holliday aged 19, born in Tardebigge, Waggoner, lived with his parents John and
Ann and siblings in South Road, Aston Fields, Bromsgrove.

He is remembered at: - http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/836969/HOLLIDAY,%20HERBERT
It states that he is remembered on Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 2 to 3 and 162 to 162A, Belgium.

Tyne Cot Memorial – source:- http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-
cemetery/cemetery/85900/TYNE%20COT%20MEMORIAL

Remembered AT:-http://www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1917-10Oct.htm
Friday, 26 October 1917
WESTERN FRONT
31 July-10 November Battle of Passchendaele or Third Battle of Ypres, including:
26 October-10 November Second Battle of Passchendaele (Eighth phase of Third Ypres)

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