Rifle Brigade) The London Regt. (T.F.), eldest _s._ of Gilbert
Hodson, of Broomfield Avenue, Palmer’s Green, N., Secretary of Public
Company, by his wife, Alice, dau. of George F. Snook; _b._
Highgate, N., 12 July, 1891; educ. Enfield Grammar School; was
Junior Salesman in the Mantle Department of a London Wholesale House
(Bradbury, Greatorex & Co., Ltd.) before the war; volunteered on the
outbreak of war and joined the London Rifle Brigade, 2 Sept. 1914, went
to France, March, 1915, and died in the Military Hospital, Wandsworth,
22 May following, of wounds received on the 14th, near Verlounhock,
during the Second Battle of Ypres, where his battalion greatly
distinguished itself, and sustained terrible casualties, losing in one
day 170 men; _unm._ Owing to the heavy losses which the L.R.B.’s
machine gun section had suffered, Rifleman Hodson had been attached
on 5 May to the crew of one of the guns, and a comrade wrote: “That
one machine gun was soon put out of action by a shell, but another
was soon put into its place. It was while standing by this second gun
that a shell exploded which killed several of the fellows, and so
badly wounded Wilfrid. I understand he calmly took the bandages from
his pocket and put them ready for the fellows to bind him up. It is
probably this coolness that misled our men, and although we knew he was
hit in many places, his extraordinary cheerfulness and pluck gave us
high hopes of his ultimate recovery.”
[Illustration: =Edward Wilfrid Hodson.=]
=HODSON, HUBERT BERNARD=, Private, No. 15256, Princess Patricia’s
Canadian L.I., 6th _s._ of the late Rev. Thomas Hodson, M.A.,
Rector of Oddington, Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Glos., by his wife,
Catherine Anne, dau. of the late Rev. T. R. Maskew, Rector of
Thornbury, Hereford; _b._ The Slad Vicarage, near Stroud, 22 June,
1892; educ. Ormond House Preparatory School, Dursley, and Cheltenham
College, where he gained a classical scholarship, and the Hornby Prize
for French; went to Canada for the second time in March, 1914; joined
the 22nd Canadian Light Horse on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914;
came over with the first contingent in Oct. 1914; transferred at his
own request to the P.P.C.L.I. in April, 1915; went to France the same
month, and was killed instantly in action near Ypres, 8 May, 1915, by
shell fire; _unm._ His coy. commander wrote that: “No braver life
was ever given for his country. Ever since he joined the regiment he
has shown the true spirit of the soldier, he was always ready for any
duty, no matter how trying or dangerous, and generally did a little
more than his share. On several occasions he was placed in positions
where not only courage was required but judgment of the situation and
quick action, and he never failed us.”
[Illustration: =Hubert Bernard Hodson.=]
=HODSON, ROBERT=, Stoker, 2nd Class, K. 21974, H.M.S. Good Hope;
lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914.
=HOFFMAN, FRANCIS EDWARD CHARLES=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3257B, H.M.S.
Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HOGAN, JOHN=, Seaman, R.N.R., 2505 B., H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in
action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HOGAN, ROBERT GARRETT ROCHE=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. (Princess
Charlotte of Wales’s) Royal Berkshire Regt., only _s._ of William
John Alexander Hogan, of Saharanpur, United Provinces, India, Civil
Surgeon, and his wife, Evelyn Christine, dau. of William FitzGaskin
Roche, of Mallow, co. Cork; _b._ Fyzabad, United Provinces, India;
educ. St. Joseph’s Irish Christian Brothers, India; Wimbledon College,
Edge Hill, Surrey; and qualified for the Army with Mr. Bullin-Spicer,
Army Coach, Eastbourne. He was gazetted to the Special Reserve of
Officers 11 March, 1914, was attached to the 1st Royal Berkshire Regt.
at Aldershot. He received his commission in the regulars 2 Oct. the
same year, serving with the 3rd battn. at Portsmouth on home defence
till transferred to the 2nd Battn. Royal Berks for service in France,
Feb. 1915. He was killed in action, being shot through the heart while
leading his platoon in an attack at Neuve Chapelle, 12 March, 1915.
He was buried in an orchard a few yards from where he fell, about 200
yards east of the village of Neuve Chapelle; _unm._ Letters from
his brother officers speak in the highest terms of his efficiency and
great courage. One wrote: “He fell with a bullet through the heart
while leading his platoon in an attack at Neuve Chapelle on 12 March
at 5 p.m. He was a good lad, so fearless and brave--most popular with
everyone.”
[Illustration: =Robert G. R. Hogan.=]
=HOGG, ALBERT GEORGE WILLIAM=, Corpl., No. 932, 12th Battn. (The
Rangers), The London Regt. (T.F.), only _s._ of the late George
Hogg, of London, Merchant, by his wife, Julia (11, Cornwall Gardens,
Willesden Green, N.W.), dau. of William Hill, of Nottingham Street,
Marylebone; _b._ London, W.; 3 Jan. 1888; educ. Brondesbury
College and the Polytechnic, Regent Street, W.; joined the Rangers,
1909, and was secretary of the Polytechnic Coy. of that Corps; retired
1913, but rejoined on outbreak of war; went to France, 23 Dec. 1914,
and was killed in action near Ypres, 21 Feb. 1915; _unm._ Buried
in a little cemetery just outside Ypres. Lieut. G. F. Rickett wrote:
“As an officer of the Polytechnic Coy. of the Rangers I am writing to
tell you of some incidents that took place in the fighting of 20 and
21 Feb. We were ordered to go up to some very exposed trenches at dusk
and remain until just before daybreak. We succeeded in taking up our
position and remained all night under a fairly heavy fire, but managed
all right and got away quite safely to our dug-outs in rear just before
dawn. We stayed in those dug-outs all day and again at dusk took up our
position at the trench. We were relieved by another battn. during the
night, and I regret to say our second attempt was not so successful as
the first, for we had several casualties. Amongst those killed I grieve
to say was your son and my friend. He was killed in action, doing his
duty, and I am thankful to say his death was instantaneous.”
[Illustration: =Albert G. W. Hogg.=]
=HOGG, ANDREW=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 9574), S.S. 106959,
H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15
Oct. 1914.
=HOGG, HARRY PAUL=, Private, No. 2633, 9th (Glasgow Highlanders)
Battn. Highland L.I. (T.F.), only _s._ of James Hogg, of
Ellangowan, Bo’ness, J.P., partner in the firm of Messrs. Love, Stewart
& Co., Shipowners and Brokers, Bo’ness, by his wife, Mary, dau. of
Peter Hastie, of Grangemouth; _b._ Bo’ness, 5 July, 1894; educ.
Bo’ness Academy, and on leaving there entered the office of Messrs.
Love, Stewart & Co.; on the outbreak of war he volunteered and enlisted
in the 9th Highland Light Infantry, 1 Sept. 1914; went to France early
in Jan. 1915, and died at Lillers, 1 April, 1915, of wounds received
in action at Festubert, 31 March; _unm._ Buried at Lillers. A
comrade, L.-Corpl. Herbert Bain, wrote: “Ever since the day we joined
the ranks, Harry and I have been together and in danger many times, and
I could always look to him as a cheerful and bright comrade, optimistic
at all times, and always looking on the sunny side. Hence he endeared
himself to all those of his comrades with whom he came in contact.”
[Illustration: =Harry Paul Hogg.=]
=HOGG, IAN GRAHAM, D.S.O.=, Lieut.-Col., 4th Hussars, 2nd
_s._ of the late Quintin Hogg, founder of the London Polytechnic;
and grandson of Sir James Weir Hogg, 1st Bt., P.C.; _b._
Whitehall, London, S.W., 2 Feb. 1875; educ. Eton and the Royal Military
College, Sandhurst; gazetted 2nd Lieut. in the King’s Royal Rifle
Corps, 15 Jan. 1896; transferred to the 4th Hussars, Feb. following,
and was promoted Lieut., 5 Sept. 1896; Capt., 3 Nov. 1900; Major,
7 July, 1904, and Lieut.-Col. 13 May, 1913; was employed in Niger
Coast Protectorate, 23 Sept. to 31 Dec. 1899, and with the West
African Frontier Force, 1 Jan. 1900, to 23 May, 1905; served (1)
in South African War, 1901 first as Commandant at Wellington, then
attached to the Intelligence Department and later on was one of Sir
Bruce Hamilton’s Staff Officers: took part in the operations in the
Orange River Colony, June-Oct. 1901, in the Transvaal, Oct. and in
Cape Colony, Nov.-Dec. 1901 (Queen’s medal with four clasps); (2) in
West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1901: operations in the Ishan country
(medal with clasp); (3) in West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1901–2:
Aro Expedition (clasp); (4) in West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1902:
in command of operations in the Ibekwe country (clasp); (5) in West
Africa (Northern Nigeria) 1903: Kano-Sokoto Campaign (clasp); (6) in
West Africa (Southern Nigeria) 1903 (mentioned in Despatches [London
Gazette, 28 Oct. 1904], awarded the D.S.O.); (7) in West Africa
(Southern Nigeria) 1903–4: in command of expeditions against towns of
Osea, Oriri and Ndoto (clasp); (8) in West Africa (Southern Nigeria)
1904: in command of operations against natives of Asaba Hinterland and
in those in the Kwale country (mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette,
25 Aug. 1905], Brevet Major, clasp); and (9) in West Africa (Southern
Nigeria) 1904–5: in command of operations in the Irua Patrol on the
West of the Niger. After leaving Nigeria, in 1905 he rejoined his
regiment in India, and went with it to South Africa. He passed through
the Staff College in 1910–12 and after filling a Staff appointment at
the War Office was appointed Lieut.-Col. of the 4th Hussars, in May,
1913. He went with his regt. to France, 16 Aug. 1914, and was mortally
wounded during the retreat from Mons on 1 Sept. He was shot through
the lungs in some wood fighting just north of the little village
of Haramont, near Soissons. His Second in Command wrote: “We were
retiring, and the Germans were following so close that our men were
often only 10 to 20 yds. distant from the enemy. Ian commanded the
rearguard and in spite of the protests of his Staff insisted on being
himself the last to withdraw. Actually, when shot, he was standing in
an open clearing, signalling with his hat for some men to retire, and
though urged by two of his officers to retire, he declined to budge
till certain that all his men were back.” They carried him to the
village of Haramont and at his express command left him there, the
enemy entering the village ten minutes after our troops had left it.
He died the next day, 2 Sept., 24 hours after he was wounded, and was
buried in the Haramont Churchyard.
=HOGG, IVAN DAYRELL MEREDITH=, Capt., 101st Grenadiers, Indian
Army, 3rd and yst. _s._ of General George Forbes Hogg, C.B.,
Indian Staff Corps, by his wife, Elizabeth Maria Chevallier (Cromer
House, Brentwood), dau. of Harry Teverson Purkis, of Abbot’s Hall,
Sturmer, Essex; _b._ London, W., 2 April, 1884; educ. United
Services College, Westward Ho and the Royal Military College,
Sandhurst; gazetted to the Indian Army (unattd. list), 21 Jan. 1903,
and was attd. first to the 2nd Oxfordshire L.I., and then to the 1st
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders; joined the 101st Grenadiers, 18
April, 1904; promoted Lieut., 21 April, 1905, and Capt., 21 Jan. 1912;
went to German East Africa with the Indian Expeditionary Force and
was killed in action there, 4 Nov. 1914, during the attack on Tanga.
He _m._ at the Cathedral, Allahabad, U.P., India, 28 Dec. 1911,
Bridget Eyre (18, Goldington Avenue, Bedford), yst. dau. of the late
William Henry Lloyd, of Droitwich; _s.p._
[Illustration: =Ivan Dayrell M. Hogg.=]
=HOGG, JAMES=, Private, No. 2553, 3rd Battn. The Royal Scots,
_s._ of William Hogg, of 61, Main Street, Armadale, Coal Miner;
_b._ West Calder, co. Midlothian, 16 June, 1892; educ. there;
enlisted 1911; served with the Expeditionary Force in France, etc., was
wounded in action at Hill 60, 14 May, 1915, and died in Hospital on the
20th; _unm._
=HOLBECH, WILLIAM HUGH=, of Farnborough Hall, co. Warwick, Lieut.,
2nd Battn. Scots Guards, elder _s._ of the late Lieut.-Col.
Walter Henry Holbech, King’s Royal Rifles, and one of H.M.’s Hon.
Corps of Gentlemen at Arms (who served in Red River Expedition, 1870;
was Brigade Major, Egyptian Campaign, 1882, and was mentioned in
Despatches, and died _v.p._, 6 March, 1901), by his wife Mary
Caroline (The Grange, Farnborough, Banbury), widow of Lieut.-Col. Sir
George Clay, 3rd Bart., and 4th dau. of Sir John Walrond Walrond, 1st
Bart.; _b._ Murray Bay, Canada, 18 Aug. 1882; educ. Eton and
Sandhurst; suc. his grandfather in the family property, 20 March, 1901;
gazetted 2nd Lieut. 2nd Scots Guards, 30 April, 1902, and promoted
Lieut. 7 March, 1904; retired 20 Feb. 1907; and passed into the Reserve
of Officers; joined the 3rd Scots Guards on the outbreak of war in
Aug. 1914, transferred to his old Battn., the 2nd, 2 Oct., and went to
France with it as part of the Seventh Division, two days later; reached
the firing line on the 18th, took part in the first Battle of Ypres;
was severely wounded at Kruseid on the night of the 25th, and died in
the Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, 1 Nov. 1914; _unm._ Col. Bolton
wrote: “From the time Willie joined us at Southampton until he was
mortally wounded, he was one of the most cheery, unselfish, capable,
and keenest of the officers in my Battn. We all deplore his loss more
than I can say. I look back on both him and poor young Cottrell Dormer
as two of the best officers in every way.” Major Cator wrote: “He
defended his trench all night at Kruseik when the Germans got through
our line. He and Capt. Paynter had the Germans all round them and
defended their trenches most gallantly--I only wish I could tell you
more; in him we have lost a gallant soldier and a great friend.”
=HOLBROOK, HENRY GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 17531, H.M.S.
Pathfinder; lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off
the East Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=HOLDBROOK, JOSEPH=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 22681, H.M.S. Pathfinder;
lost when that ship was sunk by a mine, about 20 miles off the East
Coast, 5 Sept. 1914.
=HOLDER, GEORGE STEPHEN=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 2078), 154330,
H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HOLDING, FRANK=, L.-Sergt., No. 9025, No. 4 Coy., 1st Battn.
Coldstream Guards, eldest _s._ of Christopher Holding, of 25,
Edmund Street, Exeter, late Corpl., Royal Engineers, by his wife,
Bertha; _b._ Exeter, 18 June, 1891; educ. Exeter; enlisted, 7
March, 1911; appointed L.-Corpl., 6 June, 1913; promoted Corpl., 27
May, 1914, and appointed L.-Sergt., 7 Aug. 1914; left for France, 14
Aug. 1914; and was reported wounded and missing after the fighting at
La Cour de Soupir, on the Aisne, 14 Sept. following. He _m._ at
St. Peter’s Church, Dumbleton, near Evesham, 3 Aug. 1914, Ethel Mary
(85, Shakespeare Road, Stoke Newington, London, N.E.), dau. of Thomas
Sallis, of Dumbleton; _s.p._
[Illustration: =Frank Holding.=]
=HOLFORD, ALFRED FREDERICK=, 1st Class Stoker (R.F.R., Ch. B.
7986), 292960, _s._ of William Holford; _b._ Camberwell, 6
Aug. 1880; served through the South African War, and completed his 12
years’ service in Aug. 1911; was called up on mobilisation in Aug.
1914, and was lost in the North Sea when H.M.S. Cressy was torpedoed,
22 Sept. 1914. He _m._ at Swanscombe, co. Kent, 28 Oct. 1911, Ada
Almira (25, Stanhope Road, Swanscombe, Kent), dau. of George William
Weller, of Swanscombe, and had a son, Jack Leslie, _b._ 19 Nov.
1913.
=HOLLAMBY, ALBERT EDWARD=, Private, No. 47187, 13th Battn. (Royal
Highlanders of Canada), Canadian Expeditionary Force, only _s._
of Ely Hollamby, of Queen’s Road, Maidstone, Carter, by his wife, Lucy
Elizabeth, dau. of the late George Henry Marchant; _b._ Maidstone,
co. Kent, 22 Aug. 1892; educ. St. Michael’s School there; and was a
Grocer’s Assistant. He enlisted in the Nova Scotia Highlanders in the
1st Canadian Expeditionary Force on 28 Nov. 1914, after the Canadians
came to Maidstone; went to Belgium 26 April, 1915, and was killed in
action at Festubert, 23 May, 1915. He _m._ at Maidstone 22 July,
1914, Ada (37, Chillington Street, Maidstone), dau. of the late James
Portman, and had a daughter Barbara Gladys, _b._ 20 Dec. 1914.
[Illustration: =Albert E. Hollamby.=]
=HOLLAND, FRANK DAVENPORT=, Private, No. 51225, Princess
Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, eldest _s._ of Frank Bernard
Holland, of 6th Avenue East, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, by his
wife, Ada, dau. of William Turner-Whitlow, and great gdson. of Peter
Holland, of Knutsford, co. Chester, Physician to her late Majesty,
Queen Victoria; _b._ Great Warford, Alderley Edge, co. Chester,
13 Sept. 1895; went to Canada with his parents, 11 April, 1905; educ.
privately and at King Edward School, Prince Rupert, and was on the
Staff of the Bank of British North America when war began. He had
joined Earl Grey’s Own Rifles in Nov. 1911, and immediately volunteered
for Imperial service. He left Canada with the 30th Battn., and in Jan.
1915 was drafted to the Princess Patricia’s L.I. They arrived in France
on 11 March, and were immediately sent up to the Front. He took part
in the fighting at St. Eloi, and was killed in action at Ypres, 4 May,
1915, when trying to bind up the wounds of a comrade, and was buried
the same night at Bellewaarde. His Commanding Officer wrote that “He
was a splendid soldier”; and three comrades: “He was beloved by us all,
and his behaviour when in action proved that he was both a son and a
soldier to be proud of.” He had had a brilliant school career, and
was an expert shot and was a member of the rifle team that won the
Corporation Cup and the Northern British Columbia Championship in 1913.
A memorial tablet was erected in St. Andrew’s Church, Prince Rupert.
[Illustration: =Frank Davenport Holland.=]
=HOLLAND, JOHN WILLIAM=, Seaman, R.N.R., 3646D, H.M.S. Aboukir;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HOLLAND, JOSEPH=, A.B. (R.F.R., B. 6528), 183900, H.M.S. Hogue;
lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HOLLICK, WALTER STANLEY=, Private, No. 1619, 13th Battn.
(Princess Louise’s, Kensington), The London Regt. (T.F.), _s._
of Walter Charles Hollick, of 15, St Anne’s Road, Barking, E., by his
wife, Eliza Ann, dau. of William Charles Saunders, late Sergt., 8th
Hussars (King’s Royal Irish); _b._ Barking, co. Essex, 13 Feb.
1892; educ. C.E. Schools there; was a Clerk; joined the Kensingtons in
May, 1914, and on the outbreak of war, volunteered for foreign service;
went to France, 7 Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Laventie, 21
Dec. 1914. Buried on the west side of the road, Aux Quatre, Paroises,
between Ypres and Armentières.
[Illustration: =Walter Stanley Hollick.=]
=HOLLINGWORTH, GEORGE=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9174),
295342, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HOLMAN, FRANCIS WILLIAM=, Private, R.M.L.I., Ch./7572, H.M.S.
Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914.
=HOLME, ALEXANDER CHARLES=, Lieut., 1st Battn. Gloucestershire
Regt., 2nd _s._ of Charles Henry Holme, of Rawburn, co. Berwick,
by his wife, Eva Magdalen, dau. of the Rev. Richard Beverley Machell,
Canon of York, and gdson. of Bryan Holme, of Paull Holme, co. York
(late Capt. 88th Regt.), by his first wife, Catherine Margaret, dau.
of Gen. the Hon. Sir Patrick Stuart, G.C.M.G.; _b._ Mussoorie,
N.W.P., India, 26 Sept. 1888, educ. Charterhouse and Sandhurst,
gazetted 2nd Lieut. Gloucestershire Regt. 20 Mar. 1909, and promoted
Lieut. 15 July, 1911. He served for a year in India and on the return
of the battn. to England applied for service in Southern Nigeria,
and was employed with the West African Frontier Force, 1912, to May,
1913, when he came home on leave. He returned to Nigeria the following
Nov., and was killed in action at Nsanakang, Cameroons, 6 Sept. 1914;
_unm._ A memorial cross was erected to his memory at Longformacus
in the Lammermuir Hills, Berwickshire. His next brother was killed
in France (see following notice); and another brother was private
secretary to Sir Hugh Clifford, Governor of the Gold Coast, and has now
received a commission as 2nd Lieut. in the 8th K.O.S.B. (Aug. 1915).
The eldest brother enlisted Sept. 1914, in the 11th Service Battn.
(Lonsdales) of the Border Regt., commanded by his uncle, Col. Machell,
C.M.G., and is serving abroad.
[Illustration: =Alexander C. Holme.=]
=HOLME, RONALD HENRY PAULL=, Lieut., 2nd Battn. King’s Own
Scottish Borderers, 3rd _s._ of Charles Henry Holme, of Rawburn,
etc., and next younger brother of the preceding; _b._ Rurki,
N.W.P., India, 1 Jan. 1890; educ. Haileybury and Sandhurst, and
received his commission as 2nd Lieut. 5 Oct. 1910, and as Lieut. 19
Feb. 1914. He was in the first Expeditionary Force and served through
the Battle of Mons and other engagements until wounded in action at
Messines 31 Oct. 1914. He died in a nursing home in London 9 Nov.;
and was buried at Longformacus aforesaid; _unm._ He was an
exceptionally good shot, having gained the distinction in 1911 of being
the best shot in the battn., and of being one of the team which, in the
same year, won Lord Roberts’ Young Soldiers’ Cup at the Curragh Rifle
Meeting.
[Illustration: =Ronald H. Paull Holme.=]
=HOLMES, CECIL CRAMPTON=, Lieut. and posthumous Capt., 1st Battn.
Lincolnshire Regt., 2nd surviving _s._ of Capt. Harry William
Holmes, of Rockwood, Galway, late 3rd North Staffordshire Regt., by his
wife, Anna Blake, dau. of Edmond Concanon, of Waterloo, co. Galway;
_b._ Galway, 21 Jan. 1888; educ. Bedford Grammar School, and the
Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut., 9
Oct. 1907 and promoted Lieut., 21 Nov. 1911, and Capt. (posthumous),
15 Nov. 1914, and served five years with his regt. in India. On the
outbreak of the European War, he left Portsmouth for France with the
Expeditionary Force on 13 Aug. as machine-gun officer, and was wounded
in the fighting at Frameries, near Mons, on the 24th of that month, and
died in hospital there two days later, 26 Aug. 1914; _unm._ He was
mentioned in F.M. Sir John (now Lord) French’s Despatch of 8 Oct. 1914,
for gallant and distinguished service in the field. The news of his
death did not reach the War Office till 27 Dec. and then unofficially,
and it was not till the end of Feb. 1915 that it was confirmed in a
letter from a brother officer, Capt. Rose, a prisoner in Germany, who
wrote to his wife: “Poor old Holmes was in my hospital, but not in
the same ward. He died two days after he was admitted, and was buried
in the cemetery at Frameries, near Mons.” Capt. Holmes distinguished
himself as an athlete at Bedford Grammar School, where he got his
colours for rowing, water polo, rugby and boxing. He passed direct into
Sandhurst, and was a Sandhurst cadet in Woolwich where he played in the
Rugby team and came second of his year in the boxing team. He passed
out of Sandhurst in the shortest time possible, getting special praise
for his riding. Two of his brothers, Lieut. Edmond Concanon Holmes,
R.N. on the Agamemnon, and Capt. Noel Galway Holmes, Royal Irish Regt.,
are (1916) on active service.
[Illustration: =Cecil Crampton Holmes.=]