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ST. VAAST POST MILITARY CEMETERY, RICHEBOURG-L'AVOUE. Pas de Calais France. Number of casualties: 891. View cemetery details. Are you looking for details on Captain Cyril Holland? Visit Common Wealth War Graves for death, war service, origin, cemetery details and more.
When the First World War broke out, Captain Holland was posted back to Europe and took part in the battle for Neuve-Chapelle, where he was killed by a German sniper on 9 May 1915, during the Battle of Festubert. He is buried at Street Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l"Avoué.
At first he was buried below the nearby factory wall but later the Germans re-buried him at Hautrage. Major Holland was often said to be the first artillery officer killed in the Great War and a search of the CWGC database has confirmed that this was indeed the case.
Feb 25, 2013 · Captain HOLLAND buried at LA QUEILLE 684379. [Captain John Clement HOLLAND 259001 R.E.M.E., Buried St. Charles de Percy War Cemetery, Grave Reference IX. G. 6.] 1944 August 18
Villagers who tend a war cemetery in the Netherlands have contacted Devon for information about an English World War Two soldier buried there.
There is a visitors' building and a museum with three engraved operations maps designed by Yale University graduate Lewis York (who is buried in Akron, Ohio) and executed by the Dura Company of Heerlen, Holland, describing the movements of the American forces in the area during World War II. [11]
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Meanwhile, Force H had sailed overnight from Gibraltar and arrived off the Algerian coast early that same morning. The destroyer HMS Foxhound with Captain Holland on board went ahead and entered the anchorage of Mers-el-Kébir around 0800 British Summer Time (BST).
