Acting Company Sergeant Major George Arthur Holland MM (7584)
10th Lincolnshire Regiment
Formerly 7584 7th Lincolnshire Regiment
and 1st Lincolnshire Regiment
Died 25th November 1916

Soldier

  • Name: George Arthur Holland
  • Date of birth: 1885
  • Place of Birth: Aslackby, Lincolnshire, England
  • Date of Birth Registration: January – March 1885
  • Place of Birth Registration: Bourne, Lincolnshire, England

Father

  • Name: Walter Holland
  • DOB: 1865
  • Place of Birth: Donington, Lincolnshire, England
  • Occupation: Servant

Mother

  • Name: Mary Houseman
  • DOB: 1861
  • Place Of Birth: Laughton, Lincolnshire, England
  • Marriage: 1884 Bourne District

Siblings: (Name), (DOB), (POB)

  • George Arthur Holland, 1885, Aslackby

Census

  • 1891: George is living with his grandparents in Aslackby, Lincolnshire.
  • 1901: George is living with his grandmother in Aslackby, Lincolnshire.
  • 1911: George is living with his regiment in Aden with the 1st Lincolnshire Regiment. The census gives him an age of 24 and he is listed as a telephone operator.

Relatives in services

Wife

  • Name: Lucy Chambers
  • Date of birth: 21st October 1889
  • Place of Birth: Weston, Lincolnshire, England

Marriage

  • Date of Marriage: 1910
  • Place of Marriage: Bourne District

Children

  • Florence Mary Holland, 1911, Bourne
  • Arthur Reginald Holland, 1914, Bourne

Wife’s parents

  • Father: John Thomas Chambers
  • Mother: Dinah Emblen

Newspaper Mentions

  • Grantham Journal Saturday 9th December 1916
    A MEMORIAL SERVICE was held on Sunday afternoon at Abbey Church for Company Sergt. Major george A. Holland, who was killed in action on November 25th.  The service was conducted by the Vicar, who gave an address based on the text. “Bear ye one another’s burdens.”  There was a good attendance of sympathising friends.  Mr W. R. Leary presided at the organ, the service being fully choral.

 

  • The Times Wednesday 16th August 1916
    WOUNDED
    LINCOLNS REGIMENT
    Holland, 7584 Act. Co. Sgt.-Maj. G. A.

 

  • Grantham Journal Saturday 18th November 1916
    THE MILITARY MEDAL
    LINCOLNSHIRE REGIMENT REGIMENTS
    According to a supplement to the “London Gazette” his Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to award nearly 2,400 Military Medals and 231 Meritorious Medals to non-commissioned officers and men of the British Army, and Australian, Newfoundland, and South Africian contingents, for bravery in the field.  The recipients include the following N.C.O.’s and men of the Lincolnshire Regiment:-
    7584 Sergt. G. A. Holland.

 

  • Boston Guardian Saturday 18th November 1916
    Military Medals
    MANY LOCAL RECIPIENTS
    According to a supplement to the “London Gazette” his Majesty the King has been graciously pleased to award nearly 2,400 Military Medals and 231 Meritorious Medals to non-commissioned officers and men of the British Army, and Australian, Newfoundland, and South Africian contingents, for bravery in the field.  The recipients include the following N.C.O.’s and men of the Lincolnshire Regiment:-
    MILITARY MEDAL
    7584 Sergeant G. A. Holland, Lincoln Regt.

Military Records

Attestation Papers

  • None found

Soldier’s Died In The Great War

  • These records show that A.C.S.M. George Arthur Holland, M.M., 7584, 10th Bn Lincolnshire Regiment was killed in action on 25th November 1916 in the Western European Theatre in France and Flanders.

Pension Records

  • Available

Effects Left To

  • Wife Lucy

Medals

  • The British Medal
  • The Victory Medal
  • Military Medal

Memorials

  • UK:
  • Bourne, Roll of Honour in Bourne Abbey Church
  • Bourne War Memorial in the Memorial Gardens

 

  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
  • In memory of Company Serjeant Major G A Holland, 7584, “C” Coy, 10th Bn., Lincolnshire Regiment who died on 25 November 1916 Age 31
  • Husband of Lucy Holland, of 19, Wood View, Bourne, Lincs.
  • Remembered with honour, Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerck
    Inscription: FOR KING AND COUNTRY
  • Grave I. C. 12.

© Picture taken by South Lincolnshire War Memorials

© Picture taken by South Lincolnshire War Memorials

Military Service Timeline

  • This is ongoing research and will be posted when completed

Sources

  • WW1 Soldier’s Records (www.ancestry.co.uk)
  • British Newspaper Archive.
  • Fold 3
  • Find My Past
  • Genealogist
  • Forces War Records
  • British Army Service Numbers
  • War Gratuity Calculator
  • Commonwealth War Graves Commission
  • National Archives – Battalion War Diaries
  • General Registry Office