Philip Edward Holdsworth (1891-1917)
An ongoing project to commemorate and research the lives of those who appear on war memorials and rolls of honour in the local area, who served in the military, or whose deaths were linked to conflict.
Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922
The following extract is from Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922 (2014) by J. Margaret Stansfield:
- HOLDSWORTH, PHILIP EDWARD. Private. No 601. 2nd Battalion Machine Gun Corps, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Born 'Austerfield', 102 Somerset Road, Huddersfield, 8.5.1891. Son of Tom and Harriet Holdsworth. Educated Moldgreen Council School. Emigrated to Australia in 1912. Employed as a farmer. Lived St. Edmund's Farm, Cecil Street, Gordon, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Reported missing, presumed killed, at Passchendaele, 10.10.1917. Has no known grave. Commemorated MENIN GATE MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
- ROH:- St. Paul's Methodist Church, Dalton; Almondbury War Memorial; memorial in Almondbury Cemetery.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
- Private PHILIP EDWARD HOLDSWORTH
- regiment: Australian Machine Gun Corps
- died: Wednesday, October 10, 1917
- record ID: 924264
Links
- Commonwealth War Graves Commission (ID #924264)
- Imperial War Museums: Lives of the First World War (ID #7487176)