Ian Sutherland Gordon Holms

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Ian Sutherland Gordon AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Holms AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWII 6839 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Whānautanga mai

1913 AWMM

Rā i whānau mai ai

b. 1913

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Tuhinga mō te whānautanga

Son of Archibald Crawford Holms, J.P., & Euphemia Gordon Holms (nee Melville), of Waipukurau, H.B.

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Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

WW2 Nelson Street, Waipukurau AWMM

Uri kiritahi

WW2 Mr. Archibald Crawford Holms (father), Nelson Street, Waipukurau. AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 1940 AWMM Single/WWII AWMM

Pakanga

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWII 6839 AWMM

Te urunga

WW2 1940 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.89 Nurseryman/Civilian 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.89

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW2 Private 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.89 Headquarters, 22nd (Wellington) Battalion 2NZEF Nom. Roll 2, p.89 Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Killed on Active Service, Cause of Death AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

Private AWMM
22 Infantry Battalion AWMM

Ian Holms was the son of Archibald Crawford Holms, J.P., and of Euphemia Gordon Holms (nee Melville), of Waipukurau, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.

Holms was the first man in 22 Battalion to be killed as a result of enemy action. (Henderson, J. (1958), p. 10). AWMM

Matenga

27 Oct 1940 AWMM
Age  27 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Killed on Active Service AWMM

Urupā

Maidstone Cemetery, Kent, England AWMM Plot C.C.1. Grave 56. AWMM

Pānui Matenga

Private lan Sutherland Holms, killed in England as a result of enemy air action- Death while on Leave
A message from the official war correspondent in Britain, dated October 28, and dealing with the casualties in England, states that one soldier killed in his billet and two others in the same room were wounded when an enemy aeroplane, turned from its course by anti-aircraft fire, jettisoned its bombs over south-eastern England. The men were just going to bed in the loft of a brick farm building. The bomb fell eight or 10 yards from the foot of the wall against which, on the oilier side, their Blankets were spread. It burst upwards and outwards, and the fragments tore a way through the double bricks. This was the first death from enemy action of a New Zealand soldier while on duty in England [Private Ian Holmes],

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Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Featherston War Memorial, 89 Fitzherbert Street, Featherston, Wairarapa AWMM
• Featherson Anzac Hall, Roll of Honour AWMM

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• Henderson, J. (1958). 22 Battalion. Wellington, Dept. of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
  http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2-22Ba-f6.html
  Sources Used
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2654573
  Sources Used
• Ron Palenski (2009) How We Saw THE WAR 1939-45 Through NZ Eyes
  p108
  Public - Kiwi Scribe - Other relative - 10 January 2021 - Hodder Moa Book

Ngā tuhinga

• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 2 (Embarkations to 30th June, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  p.89
• Henderson, J. (1958). 22 Battalion. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
• Information kindly provided by family
• Not Just Ordinary Blokes (2009) John GM Holms Boolarong Press QLD
  Public - Kiwi Scribe - Other relative - 10 January 2021 - A personal historical historical narrative of the Holms Family