James Ivor Holroyd
Service Number
B/201493
Military Unit
1/28th Bn Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
Date of birth
06 Oct 1896
Date of Death
30 Oct 1917 (21 Years Old)
Place of Birth
Nottingham
Employment, Education or Hobbies
He was a talented cricketer.
- Family History
- Military History
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Family History
He was the son of James and Lizzy Holroyd of 393 Lenton Boulevard, later 18 Barrack Lane and then 236 Derby Road (all Nottingham). He was the brother of Alice Muriel, Gwendoline Lizzy and William Norman Holroyd. James Holroyd was an estate agent with offices in Front Street Arnold and Houndsgate Nottingham.
Military History
An official report described how 'A Company of the Artists' Rifles were wiped out when attacking Source Trench (which lay near a little stream then in flood called the Paddebeek) where enemy machine guns picked their targets among men held in the knee high suck of the mud.'
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