2212 Shoeing Smith Oliver William Holness, Royal East Kent Yeomanry

2212 Shoeing Smith Oliver William Holness of the Royal East Kent Yeomanry, was killed in action on the 13th December 1915.

Oliver was living at Herne Bay and enlisted at Broad Oak. That enlistment date was after August 1914 and he arrived overseas in Egypt on the 18th October the following year. He was killed in action in Gallipoli and is buried in Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery; a last resting palce he shares with 1133 other identified casualties.

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

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War