Archie Grant Melville Holms

Forenames

Archie Grant Melville AWMM

Surname

Holms AWMM

Also known as

Grant AWMM

Service number

WWII 4537 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

18 Feb 1911 AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW2 Unknown AWMM Post Office Staff, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW2 Mr A.C. Holms (J.P.) (father), Editor, Review, Waipukurau, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 05 Jan 1940 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War II, 1939-1945 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWII 4537 AWMM

Enlistment

WW2 Unknown AWMM Telegraphist's accountant/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW2 Second Lieutenant AWMM 2 Divisional Signals AWMM

Capture details

WW2

Last rank

Captain/Military AWMM
2 Divisional Signals AWMM

Husband of Pam

Studied at Victoria University College. AWMM

Death

3 Sept 2011 AWMM
Age  100 AWMM

Obituary

Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 5 September 2011 AWMM

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• Divisional Signals, The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-1945. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
  http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH2DiSi.html
  Further Reference
• "Absent Friends", Letter from Egypt' in Salient magazine, Vol. 4, No. 8, 16 July, 1941.
  http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-Salient04081941-t1-body-d1.html
  Further Reference
• Holms JGM, Not Just Ordinary Blokes, Boolarong Press, 2020
  Public - Kiwi Scribe - Child - 16 March 2021 - Family publication

References

• Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (1941). Nominal Roll Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force No. 1 (Embarkations to 31st March, 1940). Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  WW2 1: WW2 84
• Borman, C. (1954). Divisional Signals. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.
  Borman, C. (1954). p.31,61
• The New Zealand Herald
  Death notice: New Zealand Herald, 5 September 2011
• List of 2NZEF Prisoners of War. 1941-1945. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS 2009/8.
• Mason, W.W. (1954) Prisoners of war. Wellington, N.Z.: Department of Internal Affairs, War History Branch.