GUNNER WILLIAM HENRY HOLLIDAY
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
18TH AUGUST 1917 AGE 28
BURIED: BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY NO. 3, BELGIUM
The precision required for his job would have been of great value to the other members of Gunner Holliday's gun crew for whom accurate measurement was everything if the target was to be hit. Holliday was a self-employed watchmaker and repairer. He served with B Battery 173rd Brigade, which in the summer of 1917 was in the Ypres sector. He died of wounds in a Casualty Clearing Station in Brandhoek on 18 August but I haven't found out when he was wounded.
In the 1911 census Holliday was living at home with his parents, sister, four brothers and his grandmother - his mother's mother - at 235 Gidlow Lane, Wigan. According to the census form the house had five rooms, which included the kitchen. William Holliday had a very different life experience compared with Albert Keppel the Earl of Albemarle's fourth son,whose inscriptionwas featured yesterday.