Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais
Notice of Death appears in Jersey
Evening Post of Monday 16 September 1918 and Monday
7 October 1918
Commemorated on:
Family memorial in Almorah
Cemetery, Jersey
St Martin's Parish Memorial, Jersey
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post
of Monday 9 September 1918
Another Jersey Soldier Awarded the Military
Medal. The local friends and acquaintances of Company
Quarter Master Sergeant H E Holland of the East Surrey
Regiment will be pleased to learn that he has been awarded
the Military Medal for gallantry in the field. The Quarter
Master Sergeant, who is the son of Mr E Holland of Fern
Place, Ann Street joined the East Surreys whilst they
were stationed here.
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post
of Friday 13 September 1918
Distinction then Death. On Monday last
we stated that Mr H E Holland of Fern Place, Ann Street
had received news that his son, Company Quarter Master
Sergeant H E Holland of the East Surrey Regiment, had
been awarded the Military Medal for gallantry and devotion
to duty in capturing and consolidating an enemy trench.
The family's joy has, however, now been turned to poignant
grief by the receipt of the news that the Sergeant has
since been killed in action. This well known soldier
was a native of St Martins and was at one time employed
in the clerical department of F Le Gallais & Sons.
He afterwards visited Canada and returning to Jersey
joined the East Surrey Regiment, he was speedily promoted
and as will be seen was, at the time of his death, Company
Quarter Master Sergeant. The family's grief is made
even more tragic by the fact that another son, an NCO0
in the Royal Navy, was drowned when his vessel was torpedoed
some time ago. We tender the family our heartfelt sympathy
in their sorrow.
