Stoker Petty Officer John HOLMES
| Died on: | 12 March 1917 |
| Aged: | 33 |
John Holmes was born at Clyst Honiton, Devon on 29 July 1883, the eldest of seven children of John and Martha Holmes. The 1901 census had the family at Ottery St Mary.
John joined the Royal Navy on 29 August 1902, later serving in the battleship HMS DUNCAN and the battlecruiser HMS INDEFATIGABLE before volunteering for submarines. In 1915 he married Ethel Williams.
He is remembered on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial, panel 26 and on the Exmouth war memorial.
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