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PVT Edgar Gilbert Holmes Jr

507th Antiaircraft Artillery AW Battalion - Mobile
B BTRY
Army
Hostile, Died (KIA)
Date Of Loss: July 9, 1950
Service Number: RA12324977
Born: February 25, 1932
Home Or Place Of Enlistment
Fresh Meadows, New York
Burial Location
Long Island National Cemetery

Comments: Private Holmes was a member of Battery B, 507th Anti-Aircraft Artillery (Automatic Weapons) Battalion, U.S. Army. On July 9, 1950, as he was moving up to the front lines, he was struck by a railroad train. Detachment X. The unit withdrew to Japan after Suwon was captured by the North Koreans. He was born Gilbert E. Holmes and his birth certificate indicates that name. Parents later changed his name to Edgar Gilbert Holmes, Jr. He was called "Junior".

Son of Edgar G. Holmes of Fresh Meadows, New York.

Korean War Project Key No: 13625

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