HOLLIS, Albert Alexander

Arras Memorial, FranceCredit: CWGC

Private
1st Battalion
Hampshire Regiment

Albert was born 1887 in Newport to Alfred & Fanny (nee KNIGHT) HOLLIS of 4 Pyle Street in Newport.

Albert, aged 30, was listed as Missing Presumed Killed in Action on the 24th of July 1917. His body was never found or identified & so Albert is commemorated by the Commission upon the Arras Memorial to The Missing in France together with 34,802 of his First World War comrades.

Albert is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials. His brothers Frederick William & Reginald Austin also fell.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.