WW2. D Day casualty & Prisoner of War grouping. Holmes. Royal Warwickshire Regiment. ***RESERVED*** "To you has been set

"To you has been set the most difficult task-that of breaking the hardest part of the enemies shell"

probably wounded (Date of action given as 7/6/44)

very probably as a result of the Influenza epidemic

and when they were again buried

WW2. D Day casualty & Prisoner of War grouping. Holmes. Royal Warwickshire Regiment. ***RESERVED*** "To you has been setA superb and interesting collection of items relating to 14611509 Walter Leslie Holmes. 2nd Battalion. Warwickshire regiment. D. O. B. 26th Jan 1914. The 2nd Battalion saw action at the evacuation from Dunkirk in June 1940. They landed on Sword beach on 6th June 1944 as part of the intended advance on Caen, and saw heavy fighting. It was at this point that Walter was captured, probably wounded (Date of action given as 7 6 44). He was transferred to