Current Information:

Age-42

27, Hatcham Road, Old Kent Road

Torquay Cemetery, Devonshire

The Royal Army Service Corps worked at every level during the First World War and by the end of the conflict it was responsible for keeping an army of over 4 million men supplied with all their needs. It was a colossal task and the RASC expanded its own ranks rapidly in order to fulfil this demand.By the end of the war their numbers had expanded to over 300,000. RASC personnel were to be found from the front line to the Channel ports and many of those in forward positions, delivering supplies of all kinds to the trenches, were liable to become casualties themselves. The tracks along which they had to travel to reach the front line were known to the German gunners and targeted accordingly, as were their depots and it is likely that it was shell fire that was the cause of the death of Joseph Holmes who died from wounds on 18th February, 1915, after having been brought back to the United Kingdom but as yet, there is no information, as to when and where he was wounded.