William Robert Holborow
Memorial: Hawkesbury Upton
Regiment: Gordon Highlanders
Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private S/11876
Parents: Daniel and A E Holborow
Home address: Burden Court Farm, Tresham, Wotton-under-Edge, Glos
Date of birth: 1895
Place of birth: Hawkesbury, Glos
Date of death: 01/07/1916
Buried/Commemorated at: Gordon Cemetery (Sp. Mem. B. 8.), Mametz, France
Age: 21
Further information:
William Holborow was born in 1895 and was the son of Daniel and A E Holborow of Burden Court Farm, Tresham, Wotton-under-Edge, Glos
William served with the 2nd Battalion, "B" Company, Gordon Highlanders. On 1st July 1916, as the Battle of the Somme began William Holborrow was in the first wave of the assault. Going over the top at 7:30am the battalion attacked the village of Mametz bring held up by uncut German barbed wire and heavy machine gun fire. Despite this they pressed on and took their objectives. The battalion suffered very heavily in the days fighting. 16 officers and 445 other ranks, were killed, wounded or listed as missing, including William Holborow
William Robert Holborrow is remembered on the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, now at Yate and District Heritage Centre under Hawkesbury
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Many thanks to the researcher Simon Bendry
Forces War Records and CWGC