Henry Holmes

He was the eldest son of Frederick Arthur and Jael Holmes (née Sanders) who were married in 1891 and had four children, three boys and one girl. In 1911 they were living at 11 Wilford Grove, Meadows, with their children, Henry (19), Eleanor/Nelly (17), George (16) and Frederick Arthur (12). Also in the household was Frederick Arthur's widowed mother-in-law, Jael Sanders. Henry was the husband of Florence B. Holmes who was his sole legatee; the CWGC record gives her address as 11, Wilford Grove, Nottingham, which may still have been the home of her parents-in-law. Henry's brother, Frederick Arthur, served in the Sherwood Foresters; he was wounded in March 1917 and died of pneumonia in the Military Hospital Grimsby on 14 August 1917, six days after Henry's death. There is a declaration of living relatives in Frederick's army service record, signed by his father on 29 May 1919, witnessed by the vicar of St Saviour's, Meadows, which listed Frederick's living relatives as his parents and his sister, Eleanor Somerfield, also of 11 Wilford Grove; their brother George was not mentioned. Henry's mother died in 1934 and his father 10 years later in 1944; he was still living at 11 Wilford Grove and his daughter Eleanor Somerfield ('widow') was his executor.

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