Major General William Holmes was a senior Australian Army officer during the First World War. He was mortally wounded by a German artillery shell while surveying the ground won at the Battle of Messin
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Informal portrait of officers who attended the 12th Australian Infantry Brigade Sports Meeting at Henencourt Wood, France, April 1917. Sat in the centre of the front row is the GOC 4th Australian Division, Major General W. Holmes.
The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force was a small volunteer force of approximately 2,000 men, raised in Australia shortly after the outbreak of World War I to seize and destroy German
William Holmes (Australian general)
…colonel on 6 January 1912 and was appointed to command the 6th Infantry Brigade. During the First World War, Holmes served first as Commander of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF), and later as Commander of the 5th Brigade, which he took to Gallipoli and the Western Front. Shortly after war broke out, a special expeditionary…
Troops landing at Herbertshöhe (Kokopo), by F. S. Burnell, September 1914.
Australian Machine Gun Section training, Palm Island, F. S. Burnell State Library of New South Wales, PXA 2165
Embarkation of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force in Sydney
A German 7.7 cm FK 96 artillery piece captured at Rabaul, displayed at the Royal Australian Navy Heritage Centre, Sydney