Company Sergeant Major 52315 Joseph Henry HOLT, CdeG
Company Sergeant Major 52315 Joseph Henry Holt, CdeG{gallery}CSM J H Holt{/gallery}18th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Formerly 10484 5th Battalion Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry
Killed in action in France and Flanders, 11th September 1918, aged 28
- Buried: Sailly-Labourse Communal Cemetery Ext, Pas-de-Calais, France. Grave J.14
- Awarded: Croix de Guerre, 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
- Son of Alfred and Mary Ann Holt [nee Beasley]
- Husband of Daisy Olive Holt [nee Drake], married Apr Qtr 1915 at Nuneaton
- NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments | Nuneaton Colliery
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Military, Census and Family History Information
- Born Jan Qtr 1890 at Chilvers Coton
- Lived at 3 House 12 Court, Abbey Street, Nuneaton [1901]
- Lived at 20 Windsor Street, Chilvers Coton [1911]
- Lived at 34 Attleborough Road, Nuneaton [1918]
- Employed as a coal miner [1911]
- Enlisted at Nuneaton.
- Croix de Guerre Gazetted 14 Oct 1918. Click here
- The 18th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment was formed in June 1918 at Clacton from a cadre of the 5th Battalion Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry with whom CSM Holt was serving at the time of his action resulting in the award of the Croix de Guerre.
