2472 Pte John Holden, 1/10th Bn, Manchester Regt

2472 Private John Holden of the 1/10th Battalion, Manchester Regiment, died of wounds at sea; wounds sustained during the Gallipoli campaign. He was one of nearly a thousand men to enlist in the 10th Manchesters in September 1914 and he enlisted at Oldham, Lancashire. He arrived overseas on the 16th August 1915.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission