WW2. D Day casualty & Prisoner of War grouping. Holmes. Royal Warwickshire Regiment. ***RESERVED*** Diameter: 41mm Weight: 26

Diameter: 41mm     Weight: 26

probably wounded (Date of action given as 7/6/44)

Also included are tatty original documents relating to his discharge

"To you has been set the most difficult task-that of breaking the hardest part of the enemies shell"

and when they were again buried

WW2. D Day casualty & Prisoner of War grouping. Holmes. Royal Warwickshire Regiment. ***RESERVED*** Diameter: 41mm Weight: 26A superb and interesting collection of items relating to 14611509 Walter Leslie Holmes. 2nd Battalion. Warwickshire regiment. D. O. B. 26th Jan 1914. The 2nd Battalion saw action at the evacuation from Dunkirk in June 1940. They landed on Sword beach on 6th June 1944 as part of the intended advance on Caen, and saw heavy fighting. It was at this point that Walter was captured, probably wounded (Date of action given as 7 6 44). He was transferred to